Optimal Partitioning of Students for Maximizing Learning Gain
The importance of a good education system for societal growth has been recognized widely. This work addresses the problem of optimally grouping students in a class so that the overall gain due to cooperative learning summed over all students is maximized. We consider the setting in…
Enabling Access to Diverse Content for Web Users
Our new technical report shows that there is large overlap in the Google and Bing search results, but search over Twitter content provides useful, complementary results. This comprehensive report consolidates the results from our KDD-2015 and WWW-2015 papers in one place. Homogeneity in Web Search Results:…
Data-Driven Education
Our upcoming tutorial at KDD-2015 will present the novel data-driven education technologies under development and testing. Data-Driven Education Rakesh Agrawal 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 2015 Abstract: The recent improvements in bandwidth and connectivity have enabled enormous improvement in the…
Big Data: Old Wine in New Bottle?
Astounding advances in storage, communication, and computation have propelled us into a new world, the world of Big Data. The Big Data enthusiasts believe it is a revolution that will transform how we live, work, and think, and it will underpin new waves of innovation…
Data Engineering in Asia: Unique Technical Challenges and Opportunities
Asia is in the midst of a historic transformation. Asia’s per capita income is projected to rise sixfold and its share of global gross domestic product is expected to increase to 52 percent by 2050. Science and technology has been cited as one of the key…
Overlap in Google and Bing Search Results
We are out with our first technical report that studies the overlap between the Web search results provided by Google and Bing. See details below. We welcome your comments. A study of distinctiveness in web results of two search engines Rakesh Agrawal, Behzad Golshan and…
Complementarity of Twitter and Google Search
This new technical report is a companion report to our earlier study that found a large overlap between the Web search results provided by Google and Bing. It shows that search over Twitter content can provide useful results that complement Web search results. Whither Social Networks for…
WWW-2015 Paper on Overlap between Google and Bing Search Results
Our paper showing large overlap in the Google and Bing search results has been accepted for presentation in the Web Science Track at the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2015). This version supplants Technical Report TR-2015-001. A study of distinctiveness in web results of…
Data-Driven Synthesis of Study Plans
Our new technical report describes the outcome of our audacious undertaking to design a tool that algorithmically synthesizes study plan for a course offering from the sole input of concept phrases representing the course content. We welcome your feedback, particularly from teachers and students. Data-Driven Synthesis of…