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	<title>hilarymason.com - Hilary Mason</title>
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	<description>I'm a computer science professor, data scientist, and web geek.</description>
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		<title>Conference: Search and Social Media 2010</title>
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I recently attended the Third Annual Workshop on Search and Social Media, an academic workshop with very strong industry participation. The workshop was packed, and had some of the most informative and interesting panel discussions I&#8217;ve seen (not counting the one I spoke on!).
Daniel Tunkelang did a great job of writing up the specific presentations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/conference-search-and-social-media-2010/</link>
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		<title>SMS to e-mail gateway: The SMS doorbell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at NYC Resistor, it was getting cold, and we needed a doorbell so visitors wouldn&#8217;t be stranded outside when the building was locked. A standard wireless model didn&#8217;t work reliably (the space is on the fifth floor, just out of range), so various members generally resorted to writing their phone numbers on a sign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/sms-to-e-mail-gateway-the-sms-doorbell/</link>
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		<title>IgniteNYC: The video!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The video of my IgniteNYC presentation is up, and has gotten a great response!

I&#8217;m working on removing the me-specific bits from the code and I&#8217;ll be posting it as open-source very soon!
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		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/ignitenyc-the-video/</link>
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		<title>IgniteNYC: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I recently gave a talk at IgniteNYC on How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script.
The Ignite events are a fun blend of performance, technology, and speaking skill. Each presenter gives a five minute talk with twenty slides that auto-advance after 15 seconds.
The title of my talk is a classic geek reference [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/ignitenyc-how-to-replace-yourself-with-a-very-small-shell-script/</link>
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		<title>My code is on TV (and so am I)!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FoxNY did a piece featuring me and Diana as hackers who use our technical powers for good, not evil.

There are way too few female technologists on television, and I&#8217;m happy to do what I can to show that women kick ass with code! Look for my mischievous I&#8217;m-writing-infinite-nested-loops grin in the clip where I&#8217;m programming.
If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/my-code-is-on-tv-and-so-am-i/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo OpenHackNYC: The Del.icio.us Cake</title>
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Last weekend Yahoo came to New York for an Open Hack Day, and it was great!
I was invited to speak on a panel on semantic metadata, moderated by Paul Ford (harpers.org) along with Marco Neumann (KONA) and Paul Tarjan (Yahoo/Search Monkey). The panel was a lively discussion, and we got some great questions from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/yahoo-openhacknyc-the-del-icio-us-cake/</link>
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		<title>Data: first and last names from the US Census</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve found myself in need of a name distribution for a few projects recently, so I thought I would post it here so I won&#8217;t have to go looking for it again.
The data is available from the US Census Bureau (from 1990 census) here, and I have it here in a friendly MySQL *.sql format [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/data-first-and-last-names-from-the-us-census/</link>
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		<title>Hadoop World NYC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I attended the first Hadoop World NYC conference. Hadoop is a platform for scalable distributed computing. In essence, it makes analyzing large quantities of data much faster, and analyzing very large quantities of data possible.
Cloudera did a great job organizing the conference, and managed to assemble a diverse set of speakers. The sessions covered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/hadoop-world-nyc/</link>
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		<title>Do you do human subject research?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends and colleagues,
Do you do research that involves gathering data from human participants? This can be anything from marketing surveys to psychology experiments to medical science. If so, please take a short (5 to 10 minute) survey:
research tool survey
The results of the survey will help us design a new platform for online human research!
I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/do-you-do-human-subject-research/</link>
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		<title>My NYC Python Meetup Presentation: Practical Data Analysis in Python</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave a talk at the NYC Python Meetup on July 29 on Practical Data Analysis in Python.
I tend to use my slides for visual representations of the concepts I&#8217;m discussing, so there&#8217;s a lot of content that was in the presentation that you unfortunately won&#8217;t see here.
The talk starts with the immense opportunities for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/my-nyc-python-meetup-presentation-practical-data-analysis-in-python/</link>
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