New algorithm maps cancer cells like nodes on a social network Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Often times, the best way to to get a sense of your data is to look at it. A bunch of of numbers or words might not mean anything sitting within a table, but they start to make a lot more … Continue reading The cancer social network
What Your Likes On Facebook Betray About You By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Another nail in the coffin for Facebook privacy: An algorithm can accurately predict your demographic info, political preferences, and more, just by looking at your “likes.” Think of all the pages you’ve “liked” on Facebook. Perhaps a favorite… RT @PopSci: An algorithm can … Continue reading Your FB likes become your demographic profile
The new startup Narrative Science is slowly replacing many of the stories you read every day by using computational linguistic algorithms to summarize data from online sources on subjects from finance to sports. It is also scaring the pants off of journalists everywhere. Narrative Science . Related articles Could algorithms replace writers? (raventools.com) We've sold … Continue reading Narrative Science: Using computational linguistics to automate storytelling
In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture - NYTimes.com. Related articles Are words the atomic unit of a dynamic system? (sappingattention.blogspot.com) Optimal algorithm for finding all ngrams from a pre-defined set in a text (cs.stackexchange.com) The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) Google Labs' NGram Viewer: what we learned from 5 million books (nextlevelofnews.com) … Continue reading Google NGram viewer taps 500 billion words to uncover cultural trends
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