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2020-06-05: Math formula extraction from scholarly papers using ScanSSD
In order to detect mathematical expressions in PDF document images, we implemented ScanSSD. This document record each step to run ScanSSD in detail, including preparation, constructing directory...
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2020-06-05: Augmented Human Online Trip Report
The 11th Augmented Human International Conference was held on May 27th, and 28th May online. The Augmented Human conference series focuses on scientific contributions on technology for well-being and...
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2020-06-08: Who is that person in the picture? Or, how Python, and Haar can...
(Sung to the tune of "How Much is that Doggie in the Window")Who is that person in the picture?The one with the light brown hair.Who is that person in the picture?I do hope that someone would...
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2020-06-10: Hypercane Part 2: Synthesizing Output For Other Tools
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2020-06-07: Regular Expression -- A Powerful Tool to Parse Text with Visually...
In the previous blog, I have discussed how tesseract-OCR performed on scanned Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). If you have read my earlier blog, we already saw that the process started with...
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2020-06-17: Hypercane Part 3: Building Your Own Algorithms
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2020-06-19: Data Visualization Fall 2019 Projects
(Previous semester Information Visualization highlights posts: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring/Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011)In Fall 2019, I introduced CS 625: Data...
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2020-07-15: Revisiting Twitter Follower Growth for the 2020 Democratic...
Figure 1: Screenshot of 24 of 27 Democratic candidates hopeful of the Presidential nomination on May 25, 2019(Source: The Washington Post)In our previous post, Twitter Follower Growth for the 2020...
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2020-07-15: Twitter Was Already Difficult To Archive, Now It's Worse!
Figure 1: Archived and Live version of Donald Trump's tweet with the attached disclaimer (2020-05-29T14:53:39)On May 29, 2020, Twitter attached a disclaimer to one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s...
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2020-07-21: Excited to join WS-DL group at ODU
As a new member of WS-DL group, I like to share a bit of my story before joining ODU CS. I have received my BS and MS in Computer Engineering in Iran. I have graduated with a PhD degree in Computer...
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2020-07-29: Working With Archives Unleashed Cloud
Figure 1: Analyzing an Archive-It collection with Archives Unleashed Cloud to create derivativesArchives Unleashed Cloud is one of the tools from the Archives Unleashed Project that I have been...
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2020-07-31: Sami Uddin (Computer Science Masters Student)
Hello everyone! My name is Sami Uddin (you can call me Rayan!) and I am a member of the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group at Old Dominion University (ODU). I have joined ODU in...
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2020-08-03: ACM SIGIR 2020 Non-Trip Report
On July 25, more than 1,300 registrants around the world opened their laptops and started attending SIGIR 2020. Via Zoom and the streaming capabilities of the conference web portal, we were able to...
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2020-08-05: Historical Twitter Follower Count Via Web Archives
Figure 1: Line charts of absolute Twitter follower growth for the Twitter accounts, @berniesanders (top left), @joebiden (top right), @marwilliamson (bottom left), and @petebuttigieg (bottom right).In...
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2020-08-05: Md Javedul Ferdous (Computer Science PhD Student)
Md Javedul FerdousM.S. in Computer Science, AIUB, 2019B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, EWU, 2016Hello,I am a doctoral student at Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, VA. I received a...
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2020-08-10: StoryGraph, reading the news for three years, a look at the past...
Fig. 1: Three connected components from three different StoryGraphs, representing three different news stories. The first connected component represents the news story about North Korea considering...
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2020-08-16: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2020 Doctoral...
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDLÂ 2020)Â Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work. The goal...
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2020-08-16: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2020 Trip Report
blockquote { margin: auto; } 20th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Libraries (JCDL 2020) was hosted virtually (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) jointly by the School of Information...
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2020-08-17: Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop 2020 Trip Report
This year, the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries 2020 Workshop (#WADL2020) was held on August 5, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was held virtually. As it had been in previous years,...
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2020-08-20: Automating Posting Videos to Instagram with BrowserStack's Appium...
Recently, I have been working on enhancing an old project, WhatDidItLookLike. This project focuses on summarizing a URI by generating an animated GIF of what it looked like over the years. Users send...
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