Comments on: SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Keynote

By: Search at the Speed of Thought

Search at the Speed of Thought — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:08:42 +0000

[...] Live Labs director Gary Flake offered a similar message in his SIGIR 2010 keynote. He argued that we needed to replace our current discrete interactions with search engines into a [...]

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:06:18 +0000

Gene, thanks for posting the link. The TED video is a good proxy for the talk he gave. Marti, thanks for the link! I prefer textual clustering over visual clustering myself, so I'm not surprised by the study you cite. My bigger concern is the quality of the clusters (from a user's perspective), not their presentation. I'm not convince that anyone has nailed this yet, either on the web or in enterprise context. In particular, I stop using clustering interfaces as soon as I learn that they lose documents I would have expected to find when I clicked on a cluster label. Sophisticated interfaces are nice, but not when they come at the expense of user trust.

By: Marti

Marti — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:49:22 +0000

Oops, I meant to type Dan, not Dave!

By: Marti

Marti — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:48:59 +0000

Thanks for the sigir posts, Dave, which I plan to read in their entirety. I agree with Gary Flake's assessment of Grokker as reported here. I go into dept in the issues in Section 10.9 of my book. But the visual of Grokker is eye-catching.

By: Gene Golovchinsky

Gene Golovchinsky — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:40:45 +0000

Yeah, the videos of Pivot I’ve seen are slick, but I found it hard to imagine applying these methods to the kinds of data I care about. http://palblog.fxpal.com/?p=4278