Data Science of the Facebook World
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Data Science of the Facebook World
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Re: Data Science of the Facebook World
#2How is it possible that Facebook, which owns the data, does not give tools like these but others tap this using their data?
Re: Data Science of the Facebook World
#3People donate their data to support Wolfram's closed-source, paid-license, for-profit program?
Re: Data Science of the Facebook World
#4People donate their data to support Wolfram's closed-source, paid-license, for-profit program?
i was thinking the same thing ..
Re: Data Science of the Facebook World
#5The Mathematica system makes some beautiful, informative graphs, and presumably users can make those graphs with a minimum of fuss and bother. It's technically very nice.
Yet, in the entire blog post, is there one insight that wasn't a priori obvious? Maybe the bits about migration.
I don't see the "art and science" in this analysis, I see "stamp collecting" (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford)
Re: Data Science of the Facebook World
#6People donate their data to support Wolfram's closed-source, paid-license, for-profit program?
They said they'll use it to support their 'personal analytics' programme [0], which is free via wolframalpha.com - I don't see how this data would help with Mathematica or anything else they charge for?
Re: Data Science of the Facebook World
#7The Mathematica system makes some beautiful, informative graphs, and presumably users can make those graphs with a minimum of fuss and bother. It's technically very nice. Yet, in the entire blog post, is there one insight that wasn't a priori obvious? Maybe the bits about migration. I don't see the "art and science" in this analysis, I see "stamp collecting" ( http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford )
The progression of interests over time was non-obvious to me. For instance the explosion of interest in travel in the 20s, and the temporary dip in interests like philosophical quotes also in the 20s.
Theres a lot of stuff in the post, I wouldn't dismiss it because its TL;DR
Re: Data Science of the Facebook World
#8People donate their data to support Wolfram's closed-source, paid-license, for-profit program?
Wolfram must have have built something people want, are willing to pay for, and even like ?
Re: Data Science of the Facebook World
#9The Mathematica system makes some beautiful, informative graphs, and presumably users can make those graphs with a minimum of fuss and bother. It's technically very nice. Yet, in the entire blog post, is there one insight that wasn't a priori obvious? Maybe the bits about migration. I don't see the "art and science" in this analysis, I see "stamp collecting" ( http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford )
The LHC was built as a higgs factory. Or a stamp printing press, if you prefer.
btw Mathematica would be little more than a DOE-MACSYMA/Maxima ripoff, not to mention the delusional "NKS" including its author.
Re: Data Science of the Facebook World
#10People donate their data to support Wolfram's closed-source, paid-license, for-profit program?
They said they'll use it to support their 'personal analytics' programme [0], which is free via wolframalpha.com - I don't see how this data would help with Mathematica or anything else they charge for? [0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/
They are using it for marketing.
(I mean the post is what it is, I don't mean to whine about it)