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Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook
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#22related: anyone know any good platforms for collecting personal data so you can make cool graphs like this? i use google spreadsheet right now, but im not a fan.
Have you tried Wolfram|Alpha Pro data input features themselves for the analysis?
Funnily enough, many of the visualizations you see in the Facebook scanner have their origin in Wolfram|Alpha Pro scanners (especially the network analysis and visualization stuff), although they've been heavily adapted and tweaked.
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#23Times out on me! :(
same here :(
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#24This is the kind of thing they need to get into. Data that lots of people care about, data for the masses, rather than obscure details on bolt sizes or ancient currencies. "Compute things people want". I could only imagine what they could do with celebrity gossip. Or product comparisons.
I am genuinely surprised we have not seen any "big data" articles about celebrity gossip rags. That has to be a market you could data-mine the crap out of for fun and profit. I can imagine split testing Tom Cruise vs George Clooney to see who generates more revenue. You could call it quantitative gossip.
I'm pretty sure media companies do that already. They just won't publish it because of competition and PR reasons.
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#25Like Wolfram, I've been doing some personal analytics for a while, but only with email ( http://sluggish.dyndns.org/wiki/Emailgraph ). Potentially it would be possible to build a Friendica addon which does similar things to the Facebook Report.
That's pretty cool -- I always suspected people out there had done this kind of thing. Nice work!
P.S. You should try out Mathematica sometime, it is a better fit for doing cool things with rich data than C or even Python (disclosure: I work at Wolfram).
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#26Here's the direct link to try it out: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=facebook+report As someone with a long history of incomplete self-tracking projects, this kind of automated collection and analysis is great. (If only I could get the rest of my data in the same place!) What I'd really like to see is a tool like IFTTT for self-trackers.
I've always thought there was a niche market for a complete, secure, self-hosted self-tracking solution, from keystrokes through to email, file system usage, and HTTP traffic.
If anyone knows of anything along these lines, I'd be interested to hear about it, but I suspect it doesn't exist. Probably the difficulty of doing cool things with the resulting data is one of the main reasons such a product doesn't exist.
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#27Do you know that feeling when a project/idea you have been working on a long time gets implemented almost exactly as you imagined it, only by someone else? Well I do now. I'm not sure if I should be excited, or listen to the sick feeling in my stomach. Edit: Thanks for the positive support! I'll keep working on the project.
I'm sure there are ways you could improve upon this.
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#28Do you know that feeling when a project/idea you have been working on a long time gets implemented almost exactly as you imagined it, only by someone else? Well I do now. I'm not sure if I should be excited, or listen to the sick feeling in my stomach. Edit: Thanks for the positive support! I'll keep working on the project.
Disrupt it :) Now you know what features they've got (and more importantly, what features they don't). I personally don't feel 100% comfortable linking with facebook - so a little pre-scan pep talk would be great. Plenty of other metrics to check out, too. Don't give up.
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#29Do you know that feeling when a project/idea you have been working on a long time gets implemented almost exactly as you imagined it, only by someone else? Well I do now. I'm not sure if I should be excited, or listen to the sick feeling in my stomach. Edit: Thanks for the positive support! I'll keep working on the project.
Yup, it sucks. That happened to me with Light Table, though I had only been developing very rough prototypes rather than any kind of polished demo.
On the positive side, there is a sense in which it is still overall a good thing. You might have had your thunder stolen, but at least more people are now looking up at the sky, and you've had the opportunity to think deeply about where the winds are blowing.
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#30I can't access it now, alpha is very being slow.
The concept reminds me a bit of this chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nangghhladpnhlllol...