Comments on: The Ultimate Baby Name Explorer http://slacy.com/blog/2007/05/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/ This site is solar powered! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:29:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: slacy http://slacy.com/blog/2007/05/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/comment-page-1/#comment-18047 slacy Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:23:36 +0000 http://slacy.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/21/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/#comment-18047 That's funny, because <a href="http://slacy.com/names" rel="nofollow">http://slacy.com/names</a> was actually totally broken and non-functional until just a few minutes ago when I fixed it. So, exactly what is it that you found? The Double Metaphone algorithm, or are you just pumping Bing? That’s funny, because http://slacy.com/names was actually totally broken and non-functional until just a few minutes ago when I fixed it. So, exactly what is it that you found? The Double Metaphone algorithm, or are you just pumping Bing?

]]> By: 3wheelerbuggy http://slacy.com/blog/2007/05/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/comment-page-1/#comment-18042 3wheelerbuggy Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:55:54 +0000 http://slacy.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/21/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/#comment-18042 You can not believe how long ive been searching for something like this. Scrolled through 8 pages of Google results without finding anything. Quick search on Bing. There you are!... Really have to start using it more often! You can not believe how long ive been searching for something like this. Scrolled through 8 pages of Google results without finding anything. Quick search on Bing. There you are!… Really have to start using it more often!

]]> By: Lauren http://slacy.com/blog/2007/05/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/comment-page-1/#comment-16203 Lauren Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:52:35 +0000 http://slacy.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/21/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/#comment-16203 I am so sorry you had a horrible expereince with the bililight. My neice just has her baby on 11/17 and her baby required phototherapy. It was at a borderline level and her ped agreed to do the therapy at home. She had the same company and I agree they should have had a parent handbook and a velcro cover of some kind to hold everything in place. Luckily being an RN I helped her get it set up, but this was only the second time I had used this machine. We had the one that only went up against the back with the same thin covers, but the light needs to get to the baby. We put a onesie on the baby, slid the thing up the back of it and snapped it in place going out one side of the onesie. Tell your friends-it worked perfectly. Blressings, Lauren I am so sorry you had a horrible expereince with the bililight. My neice just has her baby on 11/17 and her baby required phototherapy. It was at a borderline level and her ped agreed to do the therapy at home. She had the same company and I agree they should have had a parent handbook and a velcro cover of some kind to hold everything in place. Luckily being an RN I helped her get it set up, but this was only the second time I had used this machine. We had the one that only went up against the back with the same thin covers, but the light needs to get to the baby. We put a onesie on the baby, slid the thing up the back of it and snapped it in place going out one side of the onesie. Tell your friends-it worked perfectly. Blressings, Lauren

]]> By: Applications of Edit Distances « IR Thoughts http://slacy.com/blog/2007/05/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/comment-page-1/#comment-15962 Applications of Edit Distances « IR Thoughts Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:44:55 +0000 http://slacy.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/21/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/#comment-15962 [...] as the ultimate baby name explorer. [...] [...] as the ultimate baby name explorer. [...]

]]> By: slacy http://slacy.com/blog/2007/05/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/comment-page-1/#comment-13488 slacy Mon, 21 May 2007 17:31:24 +0000 http://slacy.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/21/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/#comment-13488 Yeah, saw that, and kind of got inspired by it to focus more on names and less on stats. The problem that I have with the Baby Name Voyager is that its too hard to see all the names that sound the same together. For example, I'd like to easily see only "Rebecca, Rebeca, Rebbecca, Rebecka, Rebbeca and Rebekah" and group them together into a single "names that sound like Rebecca" group. I find grouping by sound to be more interesting than showing popularity. That said, a lot of great popularity data is available from the Social Security administration, and I've been trying to figure out how to blend that data in with the interface that I have so far. The other big feature that I'd like to try to figure out how to implement is some way to mark and "keep" names that I like, and store than in a session that I can come back to. Ah, if I only had infinite time! Yeah, saw that, and kind of got inspired by it to focus more on names and less on stats. The problem that I have with the Baby Name Voyager is that its too hard to see all the names that sound the same together. For example, I’d like to easily see only “Rebecca, Rebeca, Rebbecca, Rebecka, Rebbeca and Rebekah” and group them together into a single “names that sound like Rebecca” group. I find grouping by sound to be more interesting than showing popularity.

That said, a lot of great popularity data is available from the Social Security administration, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to blend that data in with the interface that I have so far. The other big feature that I’d like to try to figure out how to implement is some way to mark and “keep” names that I like, and store than in a session that I can come back to. Ah, if I only had infinite time!

]]> By: jet http://slacy.com/blog/2007/05/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/comment-page-1/#comment-13480 jet Mon, 21 May 2007 15:01:11 +0000 http://slacy.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/21/the-ultimate-baby-name-explorer/#comment-13480 Have you seen Martin Wattenberg's visualization to show how popular different names have been over time? http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html Have you seen Martin Wattenberg’s visualization to show how popular different names have been over time?

http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

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