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You may have listened to Internet radio before, but Pandora is a station of a different kind – totally personalised. Its a Flash based player (sorry Andy!) that sits inside your browser, so no problems with firewalls. But the real innovation is that when you start it up, you tell it the artists you like, [...]

One common complaint from Windows enthusiasts is that image editor on Linux, The GIMP, is somehow lacking compared with Photoshop. Those people will be happy to know you can now use Photoshop plugins in The GIMP on Linux. The GIMP really is a fantastic tool for both Windows and Linux, so give it a go [...]

YALE is a data mining and machine learning environment that integrates WEKA and some other SVM related tools into one GUI tool. Looks pretty spiffy – the GUI looks much better than Weka’s, and its Java/cross-platform also. Screenshots here.

The Google Web Authoring Statistics site provides real insight into the way web developers are using the web. Of particular interest to me was the most commonly used elements page. The graphs on this site use SVG, although interestingly there is no comparison of image types people are using in their webpages. Anyway you’ll need [...]

I was very excited to find out that Python scripts can access Java APIs if you run on them Jython interpreter. Jython is a Python interpretor written in Java which some people have put to good use for fast prototyping of WEKA applications. I built a simple classifier using Jython and weka classes and everything [...]

Each week, Google provides a taste of the top search queries, a site called Google Zeitgeist. At the end of each year, they compile a more comprehensive report of what people have been searching for. The 2005 Zeitgeist has been out since December and provides some interesting insights into online trends over past year. My [...]

A new desktop BI package called DecisionStudio Professional has launched featuring some of the top tools open source tools for analytics. Version 1.0 features an impressive array of tools, including: MySQL Server for database and data warehouse needs. Graphical tools MySQL Workbench and Query Browser are also included. Python with an IDE. Also additional libraries [...]