<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 February 2017 at 08:08, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Would you believe that Big Data got Trump elected?<br>
(And possibly helped the Brexit vote).<br>
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<<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://motherboard.vice.com/<wbr>en_us/article/how-our-likes-<wbr>helped-trump-win</a>><br>
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The Data That Turned the World Upside Down<br>
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Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus<br>
Jan 28 2017, 2:15pm<br>
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Psychologist Michal Kosinski developed a method to analyze people in<br>
minute detail based on their Facebook activity. Did a similar tool<br>
help propel Donald Trump to victory? Two reporters from Zurich-based<br>
Das Magazin went data-gathering.<br>
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Very long article, but I found it fascinating.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Oh yes indeed, I was going to post a link in, but figured I should probably read the whole thread before I just jumped in. Very very interesting. Especially the bit where they can use likes to model your personality, and the more things you like, the closer they get to building a very accurate picture of you.</div></div><br>My main problem with social media like facebook is that they tend to be largely useless for conducting reasoned, lengthy discourse - and yet most mailing lists are defunct or heavily reduced in traffic due to the rise of facebook. Overall, this has been a terrible development when it comes to having actual discussions online, instead of just pithy quips. Most of the lists I'm on nowadays are pale shadows of their former selves, it's ice to see that this list is still going, and used.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Dwayne<br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"> <a href="mailto:ddraig@pobox.com" target="_blank">ddraig@pobox.com</a> <a href="http://irc.bluesphereweb.com" target="_blank">irc.bluesphereweb.com</a> #dna<br> ...r.e.t.u.r.n....t.o....t.h.e....s.o.u.r.c.e...<br> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/he-is-right-you-know-jpg" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/he-is-right-you-know-jpg</a><br>our aim is wakefulness, our enemy is dreamless sleep</div></div>
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