{"id":1861,"date":"2015-02-18T23:07:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T23:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2015-02-18T23:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T23:07:30","slug":"two-exciting-talks-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2015\/02\/18\/two-exciting-talks-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Exciting Talks Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Don&#8217;t miss these exciting talks on February 19th.<\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #339966\">greenSPEAK:\u00a0Exotic Invaders and forest resources of the world<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Jorge Macias has accrued more than 30 years in the field of forest health, forest pest management and chemical ecology, which has taken him to diverse coniferous forest environments of North and Central America, and to the tropical forests of Mexico and Guatemala. During the last 20 years, his career has been associated with academia, teaching, research, administration and consulting, both nationally and internationally. <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2015\/02\/13\/greenspeak-seminar-feb-19\/\">More information&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00 pm in room A413.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #339966\">Math Talk: Plenty of Fish = Plenty of Data<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This talk will discuss how Plenty of Fish built a system utilizing topic modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) on a several hundred thousand word vocabulary over ten million+ North American users. This system solves many issues with free text data entry including misspellings, synonyms, and similar entries to offer a deeper archetypal profiling and thematic search system for\u00a0several million users. <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2015\/02\/06\/talk-feb-19-plenty-of-fish-plenty-of-data\/\">More information&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>2:30 &#8211; 4:00 pm in B121.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss these exciting talks on February 19th. greenSPEAK:\u00a0Exotic Invaders and forest resources of the world Jorge Macias has accrued more than 30 years in the field of forest health, forest pest management and chemical ecology, which has taken him to diverse coniferous forest environments of North and Central America, and to the tropical forests &#8230; <a title=\"Two Exciting Talks Tomorrow\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2015\/02\/18\/two-exciting-talks-tomorrow\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}