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How Can We Study The Data of Social Networking Sites?

How can we make use of all the data stored in Social Networking Sites? And how can we study those data? In 2005 Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd developed a system called Vizster. It is an information visualization system...
By Bram Nijhof on 10/06/08 Comments Off on How Can We Study The Data of Social Networking Sites?

Vriendjespolitiek.net: research into post-demographics

Since 1998, and on paper since 1989 (Stemwijzer 2008), general elections in the Netherlands have spawned a variety of so called voting recommendation machines. These systems typically ask the user to answer some questions after which they offer the...
By Erik Borra on 06/11/08 1