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Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by sherbondy »

taliesinb wrote: post #29
ninetax wrote: post #17

Do 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.

Why not work on Light Table? http://kodowa.com/jobs

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by pulak »

This is interestingly non-viral. Although it's one of the coolest links I've seen in a while, it takes much longer to "consume" this, and sharing doesn't have until after consumption. Interesting to note how much less frequently this was shared than some much interesting "popular links".

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by Raphael »

samstave wrote: post #66
programnature wrote: post #13

This 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 would be surprised if FB does NOT have an analytics portal similar to this it allows NSA types to access.

Why would they spend time on an interface for the government?

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by Evbn »

taliesinb wrote: post #29
ninetax wrote: post #17

Do 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.

Write an Eclipse or Vim plugin instead, and have a greater impact.

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

#86

Post by Evbn »

ecmendenhall wrote: post #46
togasystems wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you name some self-trackers that you use?

Sure. I use CRON-O-Meter ( http://cronometer.com/ ) to track my diet and weight, RunKeeper ( http://runkeeper.com/home ) and Fitocracy ( https://www.fitocracy.com/ ) to track exercise, Moodscope ( http://www.moodscope.com/login ) to track my mood, and YourFlowingData ( http://your.flowingdata.com/ ) to track anything else I want to measure. My favorite self-tracking service was an MIT Media Lab project called Mycroco…

What do you use to track your trackers?

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by Evbn »

ohashi wrote: post #48

I really want to use this service and check out the interesting data it generates. But I don't really want to give away all my data to WolframAlpha. It says 'Your information is only stored for one hour, so each time you return, we'll run fresh analytics on your Facebook data.' but I am not really sure. It's encouraging me to come back and let it continuously mine it? I am conflicted.

It pretty clearly says they are deleting your data after one hour.

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by davidwparker »

bane wrote: post #75
melvinmt wrote: post #63

> all you have to do is type “facebook report” into the standard Wolfram|Alpha website. .. and connect with your Facebook account, grant extended permissions, signup for a Wolfram account, go to your mail inbox, validate your Wolfram ID, hit a dead end, sign into Wolfram with your Wolfram account, type "facebook report" in the searchbox again, wait 10 minutes for the page to load and finally.. get to see the report (…

I also had to switch from Chrome to Firefox to get it to work (in addition to all of the above).

I also had to switch to Firefox (after seeing your post here). I tried with Chrome for hours before seeing this, switching, and it worked right away.

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by taliesinb »

Evbn wrote: post #84
taliesinb wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Write an Eclipse or Vim plugin instead, and have a greater impact.

I'd like to, but I suspect this kind of thing: http://imgur.com/ZIVd4 is best done in an HTML-based IDE like Light Table where you can take advantage of SVG.

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by e28eta »

melvinmt wrote: post #63

> all you have to do is type “facebook report” into the standard Wolfram|Alpha website. .. and connect with your Facebook account, grant extended permissions, signup for a Wolfram account, go to your mail inbox, validate your Wolfram ID, hit a dead end, sign into Wolfram with your Wolfram account, type "facebook report" in the searchbox again, wait 10 minutes for the page to load and finally.. get to see the report (…

You forgot "reactivate FB account" as step one. Although I'm considering doing that to check this out - it looks very cool.
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