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	<title>History of an Idea:  Missing Data</title>
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		<title>Ontology Game:  Humans Matching Concepts</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/ontology-game-humans-matching-concepts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdavidallen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new &#8220;ontology game&#8221; has recently been announced, as a &#8220;game with a purpose&#8221; to help get humans to categorize objects properly according to a formal ontology. How it Works The game operates in a way that&#8217;s similar to Google&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/ontology-game-humans-matching-concepts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=75&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Unpacking&#8221; implicit data values</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/unpacking-implicit-data-values/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdavidallen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the areas where missing data is most often made explicit is in &#8220;unpacking&#8221; data values. Recently, I&#8217;ve been working with a system called Trio, which integrates uncertainty information and lineage with data into a database. The idea is &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/unpacking-implicit-data-values/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=74&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ontology Matching Book</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/ontology-matching-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdavidallen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ontology Matching Euzenat and Shvaiko&#8217;s book is devoted to ontology matching as a solution to the semantic heterogeneity problem faced by computer systems. Ontology matching finds correspondences between semantically related entities of different ontologies. These correspondences may stand for equivalence &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/ontology-matching-book/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=73&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missing Data and Causal Chains</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/missing-data-and-causal-chains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdavidallen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my colleagues today suggested an interesting way of looking at the problem of missing data. He referred back to a lot of work on process modeling, where people in essence try to &#8220;reverse engineer&#8221; existing business processes. Let&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/missing-data-and-causal-chains/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=72&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judea Pearl and Causality</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/judea-pearl-and-causality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judea Pearl, who is one of the more influential authors on knowledge representation, causal reasoning, and AI wrote a book in 2000 titled &#8220;Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference&#8220;.  (Dr. Pearl is also as it happens Daniel Pearl&#8217;s father) On his &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/judea-pearl-and-causality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=71&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing Upper Ontology Definitions of &#8220;Information Resource&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/comparing-upper-ontology-definitions-of-information-resource/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdavidallen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copia has an interesting post about comparing the definitions of &#8220;information resource&#8221; in various upper ontologies. Just looking at the isolated semantic differences between a simple concept across all of these upper ontologies is a bit of a reality check.  &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/comparing-upper-ontology-definitions-of-information-resource/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=70&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trends in usage &#8211; data/information that fades from common usage</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/trends-in-usage-datainformation-that-fades-from-common-usage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drafner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A very broad category of data that we&#8217;ve talked about before is everything that simply fades from common usage because of changes in convention.  This is certain an obvious reason why something might not be there but is in someways &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/trends-in-usage-datainformation-that-fades-from-common-usage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=69&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missing data and Tacit Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/missing-data-and-tacit-knowledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Searching on &#8220;Tacit&#8221; along with data terms provides a wealth of links to discussions that fit in this domain.  However, tacit knowledge has a meaning that is a bit off from what we are going after.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=68&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unified Data Feed on Web2Express</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/unified-data-feed-on-web2express/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdavidallen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AJ Chen has just released a new service that allows users to create data feeds that can be published in RSS 2.0, RDF, and ATOM depending on the user&#8217;s preference. His announcement email to the W3C semantic web list: &#8220;One &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/unified-data-feed-on-web2express/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=67&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TANSTAAFL:  The No-Free-Lunch Theorem</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/tanstaafl-the-no-free-lunch-theorem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this interesting tidbit while reading one of Numenta&#8217;s papers on their HTM approach. The No-Free-Lunch Theorem:   &#8220;no learning algorithm has an inherent advantage over another learning algorithm for all classes of problems.  What matters is the &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/tanstaafl-the-no-free-lunch-theorem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=66&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culturally Embedded Computing Group (i.e. cultural assumptions)</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/culturally-embedded-computing-group-ie-cultural-assumptions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drafner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The below site offers a look into research about the culturally derived assumptions we make when designing systems.  http://cemcom.infosci.cornell.edu/home.php &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Cornell University Faculty of Information Science and Department of Science &#38; Technology Studies We analyze, design, build, and evaluate computing &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/culturally-embedded-computing-group-ie-cultural-assumptions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=65&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jena Application Architecture Issues: Querying across models with SPARQL.</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/jena-application-architecture-issues-querying-across-models-with-sparql/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing to work on my Jena-based application, I’ve run into a snag that has to do with how to architect the application for the best performance. They say that when programming “premature optimization is the root of all evil”. Generally, &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/jena-application-architecture-issues-querying-across-models-with-sparql/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=63&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ebXML&#8217;s Context Table</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/ebxmls-context-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ebXML&#8217;s context table outlines the different classes of context that the ebXML model recognizes.  &#8220;Context&#8221; in this case is business context &#8211; the set of circumstances around the transmission of business process related information. Click the image for a larger-sized &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/ebxmls-context-table/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=61&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Questions about missing data</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/notes-on-questions-about-missing-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which data is missing? Usually, this should be smack-you-in-the-face obvious.  Something that is supposed to be there isn&#8217;t there. Knowing that something is missing presumes that you knew it was supposed to be there. &#8220;Lies of omission, and incomplete truths&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/notes-on-questions-about-missing-data/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=60&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>k-anonymity and l-diversity</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/k-anonymity-and-l-diversity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[l-Diversity: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity. Machanavajjhala, Gehrke, Kifer This is a great article on how to improve privacy for individuals in datasets that are disseminated. Quick summary: The paper talks about &#8220;quasi-identifiers&#8221; &#8211; combinations of attributes within the data that can &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/k-anonymity-and-l-diversity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=59&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heilmeier&#8217;s Catechism:  How to make your presentation matter</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/heilmeiers-catechism-how-to-make-your-presentation-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this on the web &#8211; Heilmeier&#8217;s Catechism.  The key questions you need to answer in order to pitch a good idea.  It doesn&#8217;t matter whether the idea is a research proposal, a new business, or a plan to colonize &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/heilmeiers-catechism-how-to-make-your-presentation-matter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=58&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Annotate anything, anywhere</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/annotate-anything-anywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are interested in annotations on ontologies or any other sort of resource, check out the W3C Project Annotea. They are working towards making it possible to load annotations alongside any web resource.  Imagine going to a web page, &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/annotate-anything-anywhere/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=57&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Links to Statistical Approaches to Missing Data</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/links-to-statistical-approaches-to-missing-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very good blog post:  Data Mining and Predictive Analytics &#8211; Missing Values and Special Values:  The Plague of Data Analysis. This post has a number of references to other writing on the topic, such as Working with missing values. One &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/links-to-statistical-approaches-to-missing-data/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=55&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Summarization of Data Mining Approaches to Handling Missing Data</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/quick-summarization-of-data-mining-approaches-to-handling-missing-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data Mining Research Blog &#8211; Handling Missing Values A few observations about these approaches, which illustrate the predispositions of data mining: They don&#8217;t seem to care about what the value of the missing data is, they primarily care about the &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/quick-summarization-of-data-mining-approaches-to-handling-missing-data/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=54&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RDF123:  Generate Flexible RDF From Spreadsheets</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/rdf123-generate-flexible-rdf-from-spreadsheets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new application called RDF123 has recently been made available, and has gotten a lot of well-deserved positive buzz from the semantics and RDF community.  Basically, RDF123 allows you to take spreadsheets as an input, and produce RDF data as &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/rdf123-generate-flexible-rdf-from-spreadsheets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=53&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jena Architecture Issues:  Querying with SPARQL Across Models</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/jena-architecture-issues-querying-with-sparql-across-models/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing to work on my Jena-based application, I’ve run into a snag that has to do with how to architect the application for the best performance.  They say that when programming “premature optimization is the root of all evil”.  Generally, &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/jena-architecture-issues-querying-with-sparql-across-models/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=52&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ontology Annotation Use Cases</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/ontology-annotation-use-cases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found another interesting link dealing with ontology evolution and annotation. This paper is primarily interested in annotation from the perspective of maintenance and evolution. Indeed, the protoge collaborative software that&#8217;s being developed is focused on making suggestions for &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/ontology-annotation-use-cases/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=38&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Context is more than location</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/context-is-more-than-location/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Context is more than location.  Schmidt, Beigl, Gellerson. These chaps break down the concept of &#8220;context&#8221; as it relates to human using mobile computing devices, into this hierarchy: Human Factors User (knowledge of habits, emotional state, biophysiological conditions, &#8230;) Social &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/context-is-more-than-location/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=50&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3 Fundamental Classes of Missing Data</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/3-fundamental-classes-of-missing-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taken from Missingness mechanism, James Carpenter&#8217;s and Mike Kenward&#8217;s site on the statistics of missing data. They outline three different mechanisms that would cause data to be missing: Missing Completely At Random (MCAR): when the reason for the data being &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/3-fundamental-classes-of-missing-data/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=49&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Work progressing on Ontrospect&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/work-progressing-on-ontrospect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I posted about before, I have a little project I&#8217;m working on.  Over the past couple of days, I managed to implement annotations in the system, which is basically the ability to add an arbitrary RDF triple to a &#8230; <a href="http://missingdata.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/work-progressing-on-ontrospect/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missingdata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1420607&amp;post=48&amp;subd=missingdata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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