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Joris-Karl Huysmans (Public Domain)
A Bit About Me
296 University academic and researcher into positive approaches to men's health, particularly Indigenous male health (Australia) based on a social model, rather than merely a bio-medical model of health.
My doctoral work was a text-based exploration of survival among Australians on the Burma side of the Burma-Siam Railway during World War Two.
I am interested in Health 2.0 (web-based social interactions relating to health education and community participation) and the moral geographies of 'property' as it relates to the distribution, sharing/control and use of resources required to support healthy persons and populations.
A former radiotelegrapher and electronics technician, I am a seven year veteran of the US Navy.
I have been married to the same person for more than three decades; we have three adult children who are all artists and reasonably sane.
The user name (Durtal) is a literary allusion that reveals a great deal about me.
A Haunting Thought
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." John Philpot Curran (Dublin, 1750-1817), in a speech to the Privy Council on 10 July 1790.
A Humorous Thought (or, two)
There is more than one way to @verb a cat.
If the front door is locked, they've probably left the back door wide open.
Ariadne's Threads for an old pate
Pattern Matching, Regular Expressions, and Parsing
Where and how to start learning Perl
An Exploratory List of Texts for Public Health Text/Data Mining
(Clustered in potential order of introduction to subject for teaching & research purposes; more traditional Perl texts to be listed later. Please note that I am no expert in this area. As a department head, I am upgrading my own skill sets in preparation for proposing a major redeployment of our teaching and research programs over the next three years to get them more thoroughly into the 21st Century. This is just one area of concern.)
Cluster A
Russell, M.A. (2011) Mining the Social Web. O'Reilly.
Nota bene: Unfortunately, the above text is not Perl oriented. "Will noone rid me of this pesky Python?", | "Why sssssshouldn't we esssspect a Sssssspanith Inquithissssion?", | "Why hasn't Father Guido Sarducci exposed the 'pretender' in L'Osservatore Romano?" {Apologies to Saint Thomas A'Beckett, and the writers of Monty Python & (Saturday Night Live | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, if you are old enough to remember it!)}
Hammond, M. (2003) Programming for Linguists: Perl for Language Researchers. Blackwell.
Bilisoly, R. (2008) Practical Text Mining with Perl. Wiley.
Chromatic (2010) Modern Perl. Onyx Neon Press.
Cluster B
Clos, K.J., Pedrycz, W., Swiniarski, R.W. and Kurgan, L.A. (2007) Data Mining: A Knowledge Discovery Approach. Springer.
Konchady, M. (2006) Text Mining Application Programming (Perl). Charles River Media.
Weiss, S.M., Indurkhya, N., Zhang, T. and Damerau, F.J. (2005) Text Mining: Predictive Methods for Analyzing Unstructured Information. Springer.
Liu, B. (2011) Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents, and Usage Data. (2nd Ed.). Springer.
Cluster C
Nugues, P.M. (2006) An Introduction to Language Processing with Perl and Prolog: An Outline of Theories, Implementation, and Application. Springer.
Berry, M.W. and Casellanos, M. (Eds.) (2007) Survey of Text Mining: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval. (2nd Ed.). Springer.
Feldman, R. and Sanger, J. (2007) The Text Mining Handbook: Advanced Approaches in Analysing Unstructured Data. Cambridge.
Witten, I.H., Frank, E. and Hall, M.A. (2011) Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques. (3rd Ed.). Morgan Kaufmann.