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how the internet sees me August 29, 2009

Posted by kieslinger in : Uncategorized , add a comment

thanks to a hint from Fabio Nascimbeni I just discovered Personas, a very interesting critique on current data mining practices. You just have to enter your name and then follow how the data about your online identity is arranged and visualized around certain topics.

here are some screen shots about my online identity:

Picture 4 by you.

personas processing

Picture 2 by you.

1st result

Picture 5 by you.

2nd result

The results are different. I wander, e.g. where religion comes from, etc. Be aware of the data that you process for any analysis! This goes especially to the many people applying Social Network Analysis nowadays on all sorts of data.