Google Developers Day US – Theorizing from Data
So before I got on a plane to fly from NM to RH, I prepared myself for boredom. One of the things I did was encode some of the Google Developer Day videos on Youtube for my Sony PSP. I think it was one...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Facebook Apps: Viral Vs. Non-Viral Growth
For my SI 508 Networks class last semester I did an analysis of one of my Facebook applications, Notecentric. Notecentric was a social network that I had written during the Summer of ’06 and I had...
View ArticleFacebook Lexicon: Kinda Fun, But Useful?
Facebook just recently released a fun new thingy called Lexicon. It shows you a graph of the occurrences of certain words or phrases over time on all Facebook walls. Since I do quite a lot of research...
View ArticleStats Project: Sociability of Musical Instruments Using Facebook Data
For my SI 544: Stats class this semester, I worked with two cool dudes, Jim Laing and Sameer Halai. Our project involved using data gathered from a Facebook application to test a hypothesis about the...
View ArticleFun Trolling Facebook Polls (For Science (Actually Lulz)!)
I saw a Facebook Poll late last night that a friend had voted on. The question was something like “Which pair of shoes should I get?” The poll had twitpic.com links as answers, so the idea was that...
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