John R Little

Data Janitor

Duke Unversity

Biography

THIS IS A TEST DRAFT John is a Data Anaylsis Librarian/Consultant working in the Data & Visualization Services Department. I help Duke University students and researchers navigate practical data science challenges. To that end I provide a series of workshops on R and OpenRefine and host the R we having fun yet learning series.

Some of my workshop topics include twitter stream gathering, web scraping, data parsing, and data cleaning. Each workshop is designed as a hands-on experience where you can download the practice data, the presentation slides, and workbook guides. Accompanying recording of the workshops are available. Details…

Interests

Data Science
Data: Cleaning, Engineering, Analysis
Reproducibility
Tidyverse / R / R Studio / Git

Education

MSLS Library & Information Science, 1992

Hilly Chapel University
Sociology, 1990

UNC Greensboro
Ciphers of Sybaritic Wisdom, 9999

School of Hard Knocks

Selected Publications

Mobile visual clothing search

A mobile visual clothing search system is presented whereby a smart phone user can either choose a social networking image or capture a new photo of a person wearing clothing of interest and search for similar clothing in a large cloud-based ecommerce database. The phone's GPS location is used to re-rank results by retail store location, to inform the user of local stores where similar clothing items can be tried on.

GA Cushen, MS Nixon

In ICMEW

Details PDF Slides Video Code Dataset Project Custom Link

Recent Publications

A Person Re-Identification System For Mobile Devices
Details PDF Project
Mobile visual clothing search
Details PDF Slides Video Code Dataset Project Custom Link

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Example Talk
Sun, Jan 1, 2017, Hugo Academic Theme Conference

Recent Posts

Getting started with the Academic framework for Hugo

Wed, Apr 20, 2016 academic, hugo

Create a beautifully simple personal or academic website in under 10 minutes.

Customizing the homepage with widgets

Wed, Apr 20, 2016 academic, hugo

Enable/disable and configure widgets to customize your homepage.

Managing content

Wed, Apr 20, 2016 academic, hugo

This is a brief guide to managing content with the Academic framework. Content can include publications, projects, talks, and news/blog articles. After you have read this guide about creating and managing content, you may also be interested to learn about writing content with Markdown, LaTeX, and Shortcodes.

Writing content with Markdown, LaTeX, and Shortcodes

Wed, Apr 20, 2016

Content can be written using Markdown, LaTeX math, and Hugo Shortcodes. Additionally, HTML may be used for advanced formatting. This article gives an overview of the most common formatting options.

Hello R Markdown

Thu, Jul 23, 2015 R R Markdown, plot, regression

R Markdown This is an R Markdown document. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring HTML, PDF, and MS Word documents. For more details on using R Markdown see http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com. You can embed an R code chunk like this: summary(cars) ## speed dist ## Min. : 4.0 Min. : 2.00 ## 1st Qu.:12.0 1st Qu.: 26.00 ## Median :15.0 Median : 36.00 ## Mean :15.4 Mean : 42.98 ## 3rd Qu.

Projects

Twitter Stream Gathering

Explore two methods of gathering real-time twitter stream data, hands-on exercises in applying for twitter API Keys and configuring a twitter-stream data gathering tool. Investigate and discuss historical twitter data gathering. Discuss considerations for analysis.