bgraves
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Comment · 9 years ago
True enough. I had the speak-out-loud in natural language demo in my mind, I guess! :)
Comment · 9 years ago
The closest I've gotten to something useful is NLTK. It's really great and really powerful and there is plenty of documentation and how-to guides.
Comment · 9 years ago
Hmm - I hadn't thought about the dashboard / data viz creation side of this. Not sure that I'd want to be sitting in my cube creating dashboards "out loud".
"Okay, let's bring in 'Sales' to the rows card.
"Nah, I don't like that. Move 'Sales' to the columns card.
"Hmm, that doesn't work either. Put 'Sales' back to the rows card but add 'Profitability Indicator" to the details section.
"Crap. Still not working. Let's start over."
Imagine 10 analysts in a room all talking like this :)
Comment · 9 years ago
Saw a pretty sweet demo of Tableau's home-grown prototype at their annual conference last November. It was surprisingly useful to be able to just speak "show me all of the 3-bedroom homes in the downtown Seattle area less than $400,000".
It was slow, but effective. I kept feeling myself wanting to click around for the first few minutes but quickly realized I didn't need to.
I did have to speak in away that the NLP engine could understand (i.e. "four-hundred thousand dollars" instead of "four-hundred k") so it still feels like I'm building a SQL query with my voice instead of just speaking an idea and the software figures out what I mean (hard problem to solve, I know!)
Comment · 9 years ago
Thank you Amy! I've followed you for some time and know that you've been public about your health issues. Really sad that the "Grand Old Party" has decided this is the way they want to run the country.
This post prompted me to the 5Calls.org website and I called both of my Senators. Both are Democrats and were already strongly opposed to the BCRA but it took less than 5 minutes to vocalize my support. They asked for my zipcode to ensure I was one of their constituents, which was nice.
5Calls has an impact section [1], but man, would it be nice to snag the raw data to see more info on those 1.5 million phone calls (by date, by geography, by call status, etc.)
Comment · 10 years ago
I've been using peach for a few days (@bgraves, add me!)
I'm liking it.
1. It's different and disconnected. I have FB/IG for personal/family stuff, LinkedIN/Twitter for biz stuff. Peach is more fun and more 'creative'.
2. The magic words are a gimmick for sure. But it's a _fun_ gimmick.
3. Kinda related to #1 it's a smaller 'community' now and folks are just trying stuff out.
Overall I've found my self posting a quick update on Peach over the past 48 hours more than I have on "traditional" social media (can we call Twitter, et al. traditional now?) over the past 2 weeks.
Yes, there's a novelty factor. And maybe that's it and it will die on the Vine.
Comment · 11 years ago
Just added a "5 minute walk from South Station" neighborhood.
A few notes/observations:
1. I didn't realize that there were already several other maps for the area I wanted to map (South Station). It would have been cool to see a message like "Looks like you are mapping a previously mapped section of the town. Want to review that map?" I would have commented/loved that map instead of creating a new one and adding to the noise.
2. I don't see any way to link to my neighborhood map. So, how can I share this with other and get more love?
3. How is this different from Google's "My Maps" feature[1]? Not being snarky, but the only thing I can think of is the 'discoverability' of bostonography maps.
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