It’s finished…
So, a few years ago I entered an idea contest here in South Carolina and get runner-up with my idea for a construction equipment theme park. Finally, someone else did it so I can take it off my list. Whew!
Cool data visualization site.
I was browsing around this morning (which is unusual for me) and I came across the IBM Many Eyes web site. It lets you upload data and visualize it using a lot of interesting chart types (bubble charts, clouds, etc.) Just to play around with it, I plugged in poker starting hands’ expected value data from TightPoker.com and after a little tweaking I came up with this visualization:
Click on the image to bring up the ManyEyes site. I originally embedded the Java applet in this posting but it was causing IE 6.0 to lock up for some reason. Once you have the visualization up, click on the starting position in the left column and you’ll see how the various starting hands stack up. The difference between values in the big blind and the dealer position is, as expected, huge. It’s clear how huge when you can look at the data this way.
Time for my monthly blog posting!!!
Wow, I’m a terrible blogger. I think that the problem is that I’m always busy doing stuff so I never have time to write about doing stuff. I spent the weekend in Raleigh, NC playing free poker tournaments (made two final tables, woo hoo!) and helping my friend load a UHaul. I’m soooo sore today, but I had a blast. Sometimes it’s nice to get far away from your everyday routine to get some perspective. Today I have a boatload of perspective, along with some scrapes and really sore muscles.
Another weird thing happened this weekend, but just explaining how weird it was would take too long. Maybe next month 
Ok, so maybe people feel like this when I’m talking about XML.
This video is hilarious. I’m pretty sure it’s a made-up product, but not 100%, which is why it is so damn funny:
Check out my submission to the Truveo development contest.
I just submitted my final version of Serendipity to this development contest sponsored by Truveo and run by TopCoder. Check out my application here:
It’s basically a video search tool that takes the results of one search, finds “interesting” words in the descriptions of the matching videos and searches some more. Check it out!
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