Awesome List Updates on Dec 19 - Dec 25, 2016

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1. Tips

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2. Awesome Frege

Libraries / Android

• froid (⭐101) - Library for using Frege in Android development.

3. Vertx Awesome

Utilities

• Vert.x JOLT (⭐4) - JSON to JSON transformation tool based on the original bazaarvoice JOLT project. Helpful to transform different json structure into an expected json format.

4. Awesome Quantified Self

Applications and Platforms / Aggregators & Dashboards

• Apple Health - Multi-purpose tracking platform for Apple devices. Tracks activities, sleep, nutrition, mindfulness, and other metrics.

• Google Fit - Open ecosystem to store, access, and manage fitness data (Android).

• Exist - Track everything in one place (web, iOS & Android).

• Zenobase - Store, aggregate and visualize your data from multiple 3rd party sources (web).

• Validic - Cloud-based platform that connects patient-recorded data from digital health applications, devices, and wearables.

• FitnessSyncer - Joins health and fitness data into a single centralized platform.

• IoTool - Smartphone IoT platform for automation and data collection.

• Tictrac - Dashboard for health and fitness data (web).

Applications and Platforms / Automation

• Tasker - Automation and event triggering app (Android).

• If This Then That (IFTTT) - Awesome conditional automation platform.

• Zapier - Automate tasks between apps.

Applications and Platforms / Diet

• MyFitnessPal - Food tracking and diet plan app (iOS & Android).

• Fat Secret - Calorie counter and diet tracker for weight loss (iOS & Android).

• Calorie Counter - Nutritional database and calorie counting app (iOS & Android).

Applications and Platforms / Time

• Streaks - To do list that helps you form habits and track goals (iOS).

• Toggl - Time tracker and employee timesheet software (iOS & Android).

• Timesheet - Android time tracker (Android).

• Hours Time Tracker - Awesome time tracking app (iOS).

• Rescue Time - Automatically tracks where you spend your time (Mac, Windows, Android, Linux).

• Manic Time - Automatic time tracking software which tracks computer usage (Windows).

• Moment - Track time spent on iPhone and iPad (iOS).

Applications and Platforms / Health

• CureTogether - Health self tracking and collaborative network.

• Symple - Symptom journal and health tracker (iOS).

Applications and Platforms / Heart

• Cardiio - Touchless heart rate monitor (iOS).

• Instant Heart Rate - Fast and accurate mobile heart rate monitor (iOS, Android, Windows).

Applications and Platforms / Mind & Cognition

• Cambridge Brain Sciences - Scientifically proven tools for the assessment of cognitive function.

• Quantified Mind - Tests and experiments to quantify cognitive abilities.

Applications and Platforms / Sleep

• Sleep as Android - Full featured sleep tracker with wearable integration (Android).

• SleepBot - Smart alarm and sleep tracker (iOS & Android).

• Sleep Cycle - Intelligent alarm clock and sleep tracker (iOS & Android).

• Pillow - Track your sleep from your Apple Watch or iPhone (iOS).

Applications and Platforms / Tally

• Nomie - Privately track events in your life (iOS & Android).

• Track This For Me - Multi-purpose tracking platform (Android).

• Instant - Track all of your daily activities automatically (iOS & Android).

Applications and Platforms / Wealth

• Mint - Manage your money, pay your bills and track your credit score.

• Personal Capital - Financial software and wealth management.

• You Need A Budget (YNAB) - Personal home budget software.

• GNU Cash - Personal and small-business financial-accounting software.

• Ledger (⭐5k) - Simple but powerful command line accounting.

5. Awesome Qt

Official Resources

• Qt Newsletters - The best of Qt, straight to your spam filter.

• Source Code - Browse the various source trees that comprise the Qt project. Has mirrors at several GitHub organizations:
  • Qt 🐙
  • Qt Project 🐙
  • Qt Labs 🐙

Communities / Official

• Mailing Lists - Mailing lists for users and developers of Qt alike. Arguably the best place to communicate directly with Qt's maintainers. Sees frequent activity.

Tools / Official Tools

• Qt Visual Studio Add-in 🐙 (⭐39) - If you'd rather stick to Visual Studio, this add-in will let you do that.

• qbs 🐙 (⭐127) - If QML is more your style, consider this alternative build system.

Tools / Third-Party Tools

• SIP 📦 - Generates Python bindings for C or C++ libraries. Has special support for Qt signals and slots, and was used to create PyQt.

Bindings in Other Languages / Third-Party Tools

• Python (via PyQt) 📦 - Arguably the most comprehensive and well-known binding of Qt to another language.

• Python (via PySide) 📦 - Another binding for Python, which has been officially adopted by the Qt project.

Libraries / Integrations

• Serves as a client for an established Web service.

• Wraps another library in a Qt-friendly manner as more than just an implementation detail (i.e. it tries to mimic the wrapped API).

• mupdf-qt 🐙 (⭐105) - Qt wrapper for the MuPDF PDF viewer.

• neiasound (⭐1) 🐙 (⭐1) - OpenAL wrapper designed for games, with stb_vorbis and libsndfile support.

• PythonQt 📦 - Script your Qt applications with Python. Not to be confused with PyQt or PySide.

• QtAwesome (⭐565) 🐙 (⭐565) - Add Font Awesome icons to your Qt application. Other icon sets are supported, too.

• qtruby (⭐3) 🐙 (⭐3) - Use Ruby as a scripting language within your application.

• QuaZIP 📦 - Read from and write to ZIP archives. Uses Minizip under the hood.

• VLC-Qt 🐙 (⭐736) - Wrapper for libvlc that lets you add a VLC-like media player to your application.

Libraries / New Functionality

• Communi 🐙 (⭐81) - Cross-platform IRC framework. We've got enough IRC clients out there already, but I suppose this could also be used to implement a chat function in your application (e.g. for community support).

• cutelyst 🐙 (⭐793) - Web framework that takes some ideas from Perl's Catalyst framework.

• glraw (⭐61) 🐙 (⭐61) - Convert images from any Qt-supported format to OpenGL-format textures. Useful for speeding up texture loading in graphics applications.

• grantlee (⭐126) 🐙 (⭐126) - Django-inspired text templating.

• injeqt (⭐93) 🐙 (⭐93) - Dependency injection for Qt.

• KDE Frameworks 🐙 📦 - Metric ass-ton of libraries for KDE, but many of them can be used with regular Qt applications as well. Cross-platform, for the most part.

• qgexedit2 (⭐279) 🐙 (⭐279) - Embed a hex editor in your application.

• qml-material (⭐2.5k) 🐙 (⭐2.5k) - Material Design implemented in QML.

• QSimpleUpdater (⭐635) 🐙 (⭐635) - Let your application update itself.

• qt-maybe (⭐28) 🐙 (⭐28) - Fans of type theory will enjoy these sum and optional types.

• qt-mustache (⭐81) 🐙 (⭐81) - Render Mustache templates.

• QtitanRibbon - For fans of the ribbons that Microsoft uses in their software. Commercial.

• qtnotify (⭐12) 🐙 (⭐12) - Notification framework.

• QtTerminalWidget (⭐39) 🐙 (⭐39) - Make your application capable of anything.

• QtVerbalExpressions (⭐56) 🐙 (⭐56) - Create regular expressions using natural English expressions. Part of the VerbalExpressions project, which does the same thing for a wide variety of languages.

• qtwebserver (⭐59) 🐙 (⭐59) - If you need to write a web application server in Qt for some reason, this'll help you along.

• QtXlsx 🐙 (⭐986) - Read and write spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel format.

• Qwt 📦 - Qt widgets designed for scientific and technical applications.

• verdigris (⭐580) 🐙 (⭐580) - Experimental library to write Qt applications without using the moc.

Blogs / New Functionality

• Planet Qt - Official aggregation of first-party and third-party Qt-related blogs.

• ICS - Qt-centric software consulting firm with a really neat blog. Specializes in graphics applications.
  • Qt Tips and Tricks [1, 2] - Odds and ends that might be nice to keep in your back pocket.
  • Mastering Qt File Selectors - Sometimes you need different variations of the same asset, but you won't know which ones to load until runtime. This class will decide for you.
  • Some Lesser Known Qt Tools and Commands [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] - You don't find hidden gems by staying on the beaten path.
  • Using Self-Signed Certificates in Qt Code - Trust nobody.
  • Integrating C++ with QML - Talk to your scripting language. That's what it's there for.
  • Qt and OpenGL: Loading a 3D Model with Open Asset Import Library (Assimp) [1, 2] - Assimp supports a lot of different model types; these articles will help you support all of them.
  • What's new in Qt 5: QStandardPaths - This feature's been around for a few years, but it's still useful enough to warrant an entry on this list.
  • What's New in Qt 5.2: QCommandLineParser - Another oldie, but still a goodie.

• Woboq - Another software consulting firm that also contributes code to Qt. They seem to specialize in Qt's core architecture.
  • Moc myths debunked - The magic that Qt appears to rely in is really just a bunch of code generators. This post will bring you up to speed on the reality of the moc, the most notable one.
  • How Qt Signals and Slots Work [1, 2, 3] - Qt's signals/slots system lets any object talk to any other object. Understanding these three articles will help you take full advantage of the feature.
  • QMetaType knows your types - C++ isn't known for having good run-time type information, so Qt brings its own.
  • C++11 in Qt5 - Stop writing C++ like it's 2003; learn how you can take advantage of recent C++ features in your Qt applications.
  • C++14 for Qt programmers - s/2003/2011/
  • QStringLiteral explained - String literals are widely used in many applications; wouldn't it be nice if you could make them faster to access?
  • Nicer debug output in Qt using QT_MESSAGE_PATTERN - It's nice to be able to read your application's logs.

• KDAB - Another consulting firm that specializes in Qt.
  • GammaRay: Taking a deep look into your Qt application - Talk about GammaRay and how it can help you dissect your Qt applications. Talk given at QtCon 2016 by Volker Krause.
  • Multithreading with Qt - I want to make my application do more than once thing at once. What could possibly go wrong? Talk given at QtCon 2016 by Giuseppe D'Angelo.
  • Linux perf for Qt developers - How to make your Qt application faster, Linux-style. Talk given at QtCon 2016 by Milian Wolff.

Books / New Functionality

• PySide GUI Application Development - 2nd Edition, by Gopinath Jaganmohan and Venkateshwaran Loganathan - Imagine these other books, but in Python.

Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality

• Parallels Desktop - Consumer-focused virtualization.

• TeamSpeak - When gamers want to voice chat in a game that doesn't support it, they'll use this.

Other Relevant Awesome Lists / New Functionality

• Awesome C/C++ (⭐41k) - There's no reason you can't use C++ libraries that weren't designed for Qt. Sometimes they might even suit your needs better than what Qt offers.

• Awesome C (⭐2.9k) - Same goes for C libraries; might wanna brush up on those RAII techniques while you're at it.

• Awesome CMake (⭐4.4k) - If you're not using qmake for your project, you're likely using CMake instead.

• Awesome OpenGL (⭐1.7k) - Qt is commonly used for graphics applications, even providing its own wrappers around OpenGL.

6. Engineering Blogs

Companies / C companies

• Clever https://engineering.clever.com/

• Codelitt https://www.codelitt.com/blog/

Companies / M companies

• Moove-it https://blog.moove-it.com/

Companies / P companies

• Pluralsight https://www.pluralsight.com/guides

Companies / V companies

• VTS https://buildingvts.com/

Companies / Z companies

• Zillow https://www.zillow.com/engineering/

Individuals/Group Contributors / C individuals

• Carlos Becker https://carlosbecker.com

• Codrops https://tympanus.net/codrops/

Individuals/Group Contributors / D individuals

• Dennis Yurichev https://yurichev.com/blog/

Individuals/Group Contributors / N individuals

• Natasha Murashev https://natashatherobot.com

Individuals/Group Contributors / P individuals

• Philip Walton https://philipwalton.com/

Individuals/Group Contributors / R individuals

• Ray Wenderlich https://www.raywenderlich.com/

Individuals/Group Contributors / W individuals

• William Kennedy https://www.goinggo.net/

7. Awesome Sre

Culture

• SE-Radio Episode 276: Björn Rabenstein on Site Reliability Engineering

Reliability

• Production is all that matters

On-Call

• SysAdvent - Day 6 - No More On-Call Martyrs

• On Being On Call

Post-Mortem

• SysAdvent - Day 1 - Why You Need a Postmortem Process

• Etsy’s Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems

Service Level Agreement

• SysAdvent- Day 20 - How to set and monitor SLAs

Blogs

• SysAdvent - One article for each day of December, ending on the 25th article.

8. Awesome Bigdata

Time-Series Databases

• Beringei (⭐3.2k) - Facebook's in-memory time-series database.

9. Awesome Audio Visualization

Experiments

• Musical Interactions - Some experimental ideas for playful musical interactions.

10. Awesome Elixir

Command Line Applications

• loki (⭐86) - Library for creating interactive command-line application.

Images

• image64 - A tool for working with base64 encoded images.

11. Awesome Testing

Software / Security

• OWASP ZAP (⭐12k) - This intercepting proxy allows you to see all HTTP traffic and manipulate it in real time. Easy to scan, catalog and exploit security issues.

Software / Make your life easier

• BareTail - Brings the tail linux command to Windows, coloured lines and REGEX search and loads of other features.

• ProxySwitcher - We all have to mess with proxies, this makes it a lot easier when using Test/Prod/localhost proxies.

• Full Page Screenshot - For when PrintScreen isn't big enough.

• Form Filler - Large forms can be really irritating to fill out each time, speed it up with dummy data.

Software / Other

• Colour Blindness Simulator - Simulate all types of Colour Blindness instantly!

• Yslow - Analyse why web pages are slow based on Yahoo!'s rules for performance.

Training (Includes developer training for automation testers) / Other

• The Dojo - Courses and talks directly from the testing community.

• Guru99 - Learn by experience, a bit more fun than video training.

• Coursera - Online courses from top universities.

• Cybrary - Online free security training.

Others / Useful References

• Testers Rage Playlist - A collaborative playlist from testers for when the red mist descends.

12. Awesome Hacking

Other Useful Repositories

• Repository: Machine Learning for Cyber Security (⭐6.5k)

  Description: Curated list of tools and resources related to the use of machine learning for cyber security

13. Awesome Security

Network / IDS / IPS / Host IDS / Host IPS

• OSSEC - Comprehensive Open Source HIDS. Not for the faint of heart. Takes a bit to get your head around how it works. Performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. It runs on most operating systems, including Linux, MacOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Windows. Plenty of reasonable documentation. Sweet spot is medium to large deployments.

Network / Honey Pot / Honey Net

• awesome-honeypots (⭐7.6k) - The canonical awesome honeypot list.

14. Awesome Wagtail

Apps / Widgets

• Wagtail-Geo-Widget (⭐129) - Google Maps widget for the GeoDjango PointField field in Wagtail.

15. Awesome Dotnet

Functional programming

• Optional (⭐864) - A robust option type for C#

Serialization

• Hyperion (⭐277) - A high performance polymorphic serializer for the .NET framework.

Source Generator

• Weekly C# Digest - Weekly email newsletter with manually curated top 5 links from the .NET community.

16. Awesome Json

Command-line tools

• gron (⭐13k) - Convert a JSON file into discrete assignments that are greppable.

Libraries

• circe (⭐2.5k) - Yet another JSON library for Scala.

17. Awesome Cl

HTTP Servers / Interfaces to other package managers

• woo (⭐1.2k) - A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev. MIT.

Web frameworks / Clack plugins

• Caveman (⭐757) - A powerful web framework. LLGPL. Example projects: Quickdocs

Javascript / Isomorphic web frameworks

• JSCL (⭐863) - A CL-to-JS compiler designed to be self-hosting from day one. Lacks CLOS, format and loop.

18. Amas

Ask these people anything!

• Zach Leatherman (⭐0) - I have a beard sometimes.

19. Awesome Selenium

Tools / Javascript

• Karma - Brings a productive testing environment to developers for unit testing (mostly AngularJS).

• Protractor - Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for AngularJS applications.

Tools / Ruby

• Selenium with Ruby - Selenium Ruby bindings

Tools / Python

• Selenium with Python - Selenium Python bindings

Tools / Java

• Selenium with Java - Selenium Java bindings

Tools / C#

• Selenium with C# - Selenium C# bindings

CSS Regression Testing / Dart

• WebdriverCSS (⭐622) - Regression testing tool for WebdriverIO (currently deprecated, please use wdio-screenshot for the time being).

Driver / Desktop (browsers)

• Firefox (⭐27k) - Firefox driver (for FF < v48) is included in the selenium-server-standalone.jar available in the downloads.

• Geckodriver (⭐6.7k) - Firefox driver (for FF > v48), supported with Selenium >= v3

• Edgedriver - Microsoft Webdriver server for Edge

• Safari (⭐27k) - The SafariDriver is implemented as a Safari browser extension. The driver inverts the traditional client/server relationship and communicates with the WebDriver client using WebSockets (only supported for Safari <= v9, all new Safari version comming with macOS Sierra come with an integrated SafariDriver that is closed source by Apple).

20. Awesome Php

Table of Contents / Date and Time

• Yasumi (⭐1k) - A library to help you calculate the dates and names of holidays.

21. Awesome Appium

Blogs

• WinAppDriver - WinAppDriver - Test any app with Appium's Selenium-like tests on Windows

22. Awesome Ctf

Networking

• Nipe (⭐1.5k) - Nipe is a script to make Tor Network your default gateway.

23. Awesome Network Analysis

Books / Topic-specific

• Network Analysis Literacy. A Practical Approach to the Analysis of Networks, by Katharina A. Zweig (2016).

24. Awesome Osint

OSINT Videos / Telegram

• Data to Go

• Amazing mind reader reveals his ‘gift’

• See how easily freaks can take over your life

25. Awesome Fp Js

Resources / Videos

• Anjana Vakil: Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript - JSUnconf 2016 - A simple and understandable introduction of functional proramming in javascript.

26. Awesome Vulkan

Hardware Support

• NVIDIA
  • Driver for Desktop
  • Driver for Android
  • Driver for Linux for Tegra (L4T)

• Intel
  • Open-source Driver
  • Driver for Windows

Document

• NVIDIA
  • Vulkan Device-Generated Commands
  • Getting Vulkan Ready For VR
  • GPU-Driven Rendering
  • GDC 16 - High-performance, Low-Overhead Rendering with OpenGL and Vulkan
  • GDC 16 - Vulkan and NVIDIA – The Essentials
  • Engaging the Voyage to Vulkan
  • Vulkan Shader Resource Binding
  • Vulkan Memory Management
  • OpenGL like Vulkan
  • Transitioning from OpenGL to Vulkan
  • Siggraph 15 talk - Vulkan on NVIDIA GPUs

• Intel
  • API without Secrets: Introduction to Vulkan (⭐1.3k) [LICENSE (⭐1.3k)]
    • Part 1: The Beginning
    • Part 2: Swap Chain
    • Part 3: First Triangle
    • Part 4: Vertex Attributes

Tutorial

• Siggraph
  • An overview of next-generation graphics APIs - covers Vulkan, D3D12 etc.

Samples

• Google
  • Android port of LunarG samples (⭐464).
  • android tutorials (⭐785).

• nvpro-samples - NVIDIA DesignWorks Samples. [LICENSE (⭐151)]
  • gl_vk_chopper (⭐202) - Simple vulkan rendering example.
  • gl_vk_threaded_cadscene (⭐151) - OpenGL and Vulkan comparison on rendering a CAD scene using various techniques and the blog about it.
  • gl_vk_bk3dthreaded (⭐86) - Vulkan sample rendering 3D with 'worker-threads'.
  • gl_vk_supersampled (⭐61) - Vulkan sample showing a high quality super-sampled rendering.

• Vulkan-Forward-Plus-Renderer (⭐628) - VFPR - a Vulkan Forward Plus Renderer. [MIT]

27. Awesome Laravel Education

Quick References

• bestmomo/laravel5-3-example (⭐225) - A good example of how to use Laravel 5.3 to build an web application.

28. Awesome Machine Learning

Python / Neural Networks

• Data Driven Code (⭐29) - Very simple implementation of neural networks for dummies in python without using any libraries, with detailed comments.

29. Awesome AutoIt

Syntax Highlighter / OpenOffice

• AutoIt - Visual Studio (⭐57) - AutoIt extension for Visual Studio.

30. Awesome Markdown

CMS / Blogs

• Ghost - Publishing platform for professional bloggers.

• Grav - Modern Flat-File CMS.

• Svbtle - Blogging platform designed to help you think.

Tools / Linters

• Markdownlint (⭐668) - Node.js style checker and lint tool for Markdown/CommonMark files.

Resources / Documentation

• The text/markdown Media Type (RFC7763) - This document registers the text/markdown media type for use with Markdown, a family of plain-text formatting syntaxes.

31. Nlp with Ruby

Pipeline Generation

• ruby-spark (⭐224) - Spark bindings with an easy to understand DSL.

32. Awesome Vue

Resources / Tutorials

• VueJS 2 - The Complete Guide (incl. Vuex) - Udemy Tutorial

• Develop Web Apps with Vue.js on egghead.io

33. Guitarspecs

Strings / Active Pickups Electronics

• Construction (Flat Wound/Round Wound)

• Material (Steel/Nickel) and

Scale Length / Active Pickups Electronics

• quick response, crisp attack

• transparent sound with well-defined basses and heights

• larger finger spread

• higher string tension at constant gauge

• warmer

• more sustain and longer decay

34. Awesome Angular

Documentation tools / Components

• Compodoc (⭐3.9k) : "The missing documentation tool for your Angular 2 application", integrate well with npm scripts

TypeScript Seed Projects / Components

• famn (⭐26) - Angular 2 + FeathersJS application framework for both client and server side

Haxe General Resources / Components

• Haxe discussion group - community

• Haxe and Node.js

• News And Information For Haxe Developers

35. Awesome Cpp

Cryptography

• Themis (⭐1.8k) - crypto library for painless data security, providing symmetric and asymmetric encryption, secure sockets with forward secrecy, for mobile and server platforms. [Apache2]

Debug

• backward-cpp (⭐3.5k) - A beautiful stack trace pretty printer for C++. [MIT]

GUI

• nana - Nana is a cross-platform library for GUI programming in modern C++ style. [Boost]

Logging

• Blackhole (⭐198) - Attribute-based logging framework, which is designed to be fast, modular and highly customizable. [MIT]

36. Awesome Dotnet Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Tools

• docfx (⭐3.6k) - Tools for building and publishing API documentation for .NET projects http://dotnet.github.io/docfx

37. Awesome Ruby

Coding Style Guides

• Fundamental Ruby (⭐463) - Fundamental programming ruby with examples. Threads, design patterns, data structures, OOP SOLID principle, algorithms.

38. Awesome Courses

Courses / Programming Languages / Compilers

• CS 75 Principles of Compiler Design Swathmore College
  • Modelled after the influential paper on incremental approach to compiler design, this course teaches how to build a compiler in OCaml
  • Course on Github
  • Notes (⭐37)

• CS 91 Introduction to Programming Languages Swathmore College
  • Uses the Pyret programming language & PAPL book to understand the fundamentals of programming languages.
  • Labs

39. Awesome Information Retrieval

Books

• Introduction to Information Retrieval - C.D. Manning, P. Raghavan, H. Schütze. Cambridge UP, 2008. (First book for getting started with Information Retrieval).

• Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice - Bruce Croft, Don Metzler, and Trevor Strohman. 2009. (Great book for readers interested in knowing how Search Engines work. The book is very detailed).

• Language Modeling for Information Retrieval - W.B. Croft, J. Lafferty. Springer, 2003. (Handles Language Modeling aspect of Information Retrieval. It also extensively details probabilistic perspective in this domain, which is interesting).

• Information Retrieval: A Survey - Ed Greengrass, 2000. (Comprehensive survey of Conventional Information Retrieval, before Deep Learning era).

Datasets / Standard IR Collections

• TREC Collections - TREC is the benchmark dataset used by most IR and Web search algorithms. It has several tracks, each of which consists of dataset to test for a specific task. The tracks along with suggested use-case are:
  • Blog - Explore information seeking behavior in the blogosphere.
  • Chemical IR - Address challenges in building large chemical testbeds for chemical IR.
  • Clinical Decision Support - Investigate techniques to link medical cases to information relevant for patient care.
  • Confusion - Study Known Item Searching problem.
  • Contextual Suggestion - Investigate search techniques for complex information needs (context and user interests based).
  • Crowdsourcing - Explore crowdsourcing methods for performing and evaluating search.
  • Enterprise - Study search over the organization data.
  • Entity - Perform entity-related search (find entities and their properties) on Web data.
  • Filtering - Binarily decide retrieval of new incoming documents given a stable information need.
  • Federated Web Search - Study merge performance for results from various search services.
  • Genomics - Study retrieval efficiency of genomics data and corresponding documentation.
  • HARD - Obtain High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents by leveraging searcher's context.
  • Interactive Track - Study user interaction with text retrieval systems.
  • Knowledge base acceleration - Study algorithms that improve efficiency of human Knowledge Base.
  • Legal Track - Study retrieval systems that have high recall for legal documents use case.
  • Medical Track - Explore unstructured search performance over patients record data.
  • Microblog Track - Examine satisfaction of real-time information need for microblogging sites.
  • Million Query Track - Explore ad-hoc retrieval over large set of queries.
  • Novelty Track - Investigate systems' abilities to locate new (non-redundant) information.
  • Question Answering Track - Test systems that scale beyond document retrieval, to retrieve answers to factoid, list and definition type questions.
  • Relevance Feedback Track - For deep evaluation of relevance feedback processes.
  • Robust Track - Study individual topic's effectiveness.
  • Session Track - Develop methods for measuring multiple-query sessions where information needs drift.
  • SPAM Track - Benchmark spam filtering approaches.
  • Tasks Track - Test if systems can induce possible tasks, users might be trying to accomplish for the query.
  • Temporal Summarization Track - Develop systems that allow users to efficiently monitor the information associated with an event over time.
  • Terabyte Track - Test scalability of IR systems to large scale collection.
  • Web Track - Explore information seeking behaviors common in general web search.

Talks / Technical Talks

• The next web - Tim Berners-Lee (Ted Talk) [Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), overseeing the Web's standards and development].

• Internet Privacy - Dr. Alma Whitten (Google Brussels Tech Talk).

Talks / Philosophical Talks

• The case for anonymity online - Christopher "moot" Poole" (Ted Talks) [Christopher "moot" Poole is founder of 4chan, an online imageboard whose anonymous denizens have spawned the web's most bewildering and influential subculture].

40. Awesome R

Spatial

• Leaflet - One of the most popular JavaScript libraries interactive maps.

• CRAN Task View: Analysis of Spatial Data- Spatial Analysis related resources.

• ggmap (⭐755) - Plotting maps in R with ggplot2.

• REmap (⭐255) - R interface to the JavaScript library ECharts for interactive map data visualization.

• sp - Classes and Methods for Spatial Data.

• rgeos - Interface to Geometry Engine - Open Source

• rgdal - Bindings for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

• maptools - Tools for Reading and Handling Spatial Objects

• gstat (⭐185) - Spatial and spatio-temporal geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation.

• spacetime (⭐69) - R classes and methods for spatio-temporal data.

• RColorBrewer - Provides color schemes for maps

• spatstat (⭐178) - Spatial Point Pattern Analysis, Model-Fitting, Simulation, Tests

• spdep - Spatial Dependence: Weighting Schemes, Statistics and Models

HTML Widgets

• wordcloud2 (⭐394) - R interface to wordcloud2.js.

Books / Paid

• Learning R Programming - Learning R as a programming language from basics to advanced topics.

41. Awesome AutoHotkey

Integrated Development Environment / Web

• Sublime 4 AutoHotkey - Sublime 4 AutoHotkey is a patch for Sublime Text text editor which adds support for AutoHotkey. - (discontinued)

42. Awesome Talks

Software Design

• Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen [26:04]

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