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		<title>Comparing two confusion matrices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comparing two confusion matrices is a standard approach for comparing the respective targeting systems, but by no means is it the only one. As we will discuss in the coming days, you can also compare two score based targeting systems by comparing their lists. But for now, let us focus on comparing the targeting systems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standardwisdom.com/softwarejournal/2012/01/comparing-two-confusion-matrices/</link>
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		<title>Teaching Unix System Administration at GWU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the spring 2012, I am teaching Unix system administration at GWU, which is a mix undergraduate and graduate class. Most of the students are graduate students, and they bring a lot of interesting perspectives to this class. When we finish this class in May, there is a small likelihood that the following scenario plays [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standardwisdom.com/softwarejournal/2012/01/teaching-unix-system-administration-at-gwu/</link>
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		<title>Parking in the City &#8211; Slides from the 1st Intelligent Transportation and Logistics Meetup</title>
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		<link>http://standardwisdom.com/softwarejournal/2012/01/parking-in-the-city-slides-from-the-1st-intelligent-transportation-and-logistics-meetup/</link>
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		<title>Silver Line Metro &#8211; Slides from the 1st Intelligent Transportation and Logistics Meetup</title>
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		<link>http://standardwisdom.com/softwarejournal/2012/01/silver-line-metro-slides-intelligent-transportation-and-logistics-meetup/</link>
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		<title>Politics and Algorithms rarely mix, but when they do, they involve food stamps and bin packing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[This is one of rare posts, that will be cross-posted to the Guy Down the Street blog as well.]]]></description>
		<link>http://standardwisdom.com/softwarejournal/2012/01/politics-and-algorithms-litus/</link>
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		<title>Targeting Systems vs. Classification Systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is generally said that targeting system is a degenerate classification system with only two labels.  However, this is misleading.  For example, consider that you are trying to identify a list of customers who are good prospects for an upselling opportunity.   So, you run the system and generate a list of the “to call” list.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standardwisdom.com/softwarejournal/2012/01/targeting-systems-vs-classification-systems/</link>
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		<title>Defining the center &#8211; Mean, Average, Geometric Mean, Median, Mid Range, or something else?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frequently, the need arises to define the central value of a given population.  While the problem is a bit harder in sociology (for example, what does an average American want?), the problem is easier when considering the scientific world, where the population is given by a sequence of numbers. Here are some of the many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standardwisdom.com/softwarejournal/2012/01/defining-the-center-arithmetic-mean-geometric-mean/</link>
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		<title>Intelligent Transportation and Logistics Meetup in Washington DC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking forward to the first meetup of the &#8220;Intelligent Transportation and Logistics&#8221; meetup group in Washington DC!  On January 23rd, the Intelligent Transpologists of Washington DC metro area will meet to talk about &#8220;Silver Line Metro, Parking in the City and the Meta Issues&#8221; Checkout the group, and if live in the Washington DC metro [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standardwisdom.com/softwarejournal/2012/01/intelligent-transportation-and-logistics-meetup-in-washington-dc/</link>
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		<title>Ethical/Policy issues concerning Targeting Systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Targeting Systems can be used to target a very variety of &#8220;things&#8221;. The things can be people, tax filings, medical claims, flights, customers, and many others. For example, targeting systems can be used to find which of the tax filings (or medical claims) should be reviewed (targeted) for errors (or fraud), it is just as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standardwisdom.com/softwarejournal/2012/01/ethicalpolicy-issues-concerning-targeting-systems/</link>
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		<title>Confusion Matrix &#8211; Another Single Value Metric &#8211; Kappa Statistic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background: This is another in the line of posts on how to compare confusion matrices. The path, as has been taken in the past is in terms of using some aggregate objective function (or single value metric), that takes a confusion matrix and reduces it to one value. In a previous post, we have discussed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standardwisdom.com/softwarejournal/2011/12/confusion-matrix-another-single-value-metric-kappa-statistic/</link>
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