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(cross-posted at InSTEDD) ‘Information is a vital form of aid in itself […] Disaster-affected people need information as much as water, food, medicine or shelter. Information can save lives, livelihoods and...

Last week I had the chance of giving a lecture with Taha in the context of an InSTEDD presentation about Machine Learning applied in Biosurveillance at the Public Health Informatics course at the Mahidol University in Bangkok. It was...

A couple of days ago we started working on a new visualization for Riff's acitivity. The requirement was to find a way of representing the relationship between items tag with two or more tags, the users who were tagging and the evolution...

We have finished our first internship between InSTEDD and Trinity College. Juan Pablo and Qianqian did an amazing job putting together an SVM classifier using libSVM for suggesting tags inside Riff items. They tested the implementation...