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        <h1><a href="visualizations">Artistic Visualizations</a></h1>
	    <p>I love preparing fun visualizations of datasets I use. This page documents these visualizations I prepare. The goal is beauty, not utility.</p>
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      <h2> Old Projects </h2>
      <p> These are projects I've worked on in the past that I don't consider active any longer.</p>
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      <h1><a href="demos/worldofmusic">The World of Music</a></h1>
      <p>Using data from the <a href="http://launch.yahoo.com/">LAUNCHcast</a> network, I helped examine the structure of the data. We found that an SDP embedding produced a facinating layout of the relationships between musical artists.</p>
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      <h1><a href="demos/vimos/MovieGraph.html">Visual Movie Suggestions</a></h1>
      <p>Based on user-movie ratings from <a href="http://www.grouplens.org/">GroupLens</a> we generated a movie-movie similarity graph. This Java applet allows you to browse our graph!</p>
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      <h1><a href="projects/ppagerank">Parallel PageRank</a></h1>
      <p>A summary of my work on the performance of parallel implementations of PageRank. </p>
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        <h1><a href="projects/pca_neural_nets_website">PCA and ICA with Neural Networks</a></h1>
        <p>While in undergraduate school, I studied computing PCA and ICA decompositions using neural networks. I've kept the website around for fun.</p>
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