E-Culture and Social Networks

Quantification is closely related to classification : however, the goal of classification is different, since in classification we are interested in correctly guessing the true class label of each single individual. Instead, in quantification we are interested in classifying our individuals with the goal of estimating the class prevalence where is not strictly necessary to classify correctly each single individual. Classification and quantification are different because, a perfect classifier is also a perfect quantifier, not necessarily a good classifier is also good quantifier. Quantification aims at finding the class frequencies in a set of unlabeled data, while classification aims at determining the class of each specific item in the same dataset. In other words, a quantifier does not care about perfectly predicting the class of a single item, but to guess the global trend of the classes in a new set of data.

Here are the names of some favorite celebrities to find out how close they really are with Mr.  Kevin Bacon: Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi = 3 (Snooki and Larry David appeared in 'The Three Stooges'; Larry David and Dianne Wiest and Kevin Bacon appeared in 'Footloose') Britney Spears = 2 (Britney Spears and Greg Grunberg appeared in 'Austin Powers: Goldmember"; Greg Grumber and Kevin Bacon appeared in "Hollow Man") Elmo = 2 (Elmo and Oliver Platt appeared in "Cinderelmo", Oliver Platt and Kevin Bacon appeared in "X-Men: First Class) Barack Obama = 2 (Barack Obama and Tom Hanks appeared in "The Road We've Traveled"; Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon appeared in "Apollo 13") Zac Efron = 2 (Zac Efron and Blythe Danner appeared in "The Lucky One"; Blythe Danner and Kevin Bacon appeared in "Beyond All Boundaries") Ryan Gosling = 1 (Ryan Gosling and Kevin Bacon appeared in "Crazy, Stupid, L...

The information revolution is often identified as the most profound driver of change in our world today, enabling an ongoing disruptive transformation in the deep structure to our Industrial Age social institutions as we move further into the 21st century. Information technology is unleashing the most radical force of our time, hyperconnectivity, which is reshaping all areas of our technology, economy and social institutions according to a new set of rules; those of access, network structure, information, and knowledge.  While the original revolution in technology may be at least partially behind us, the social impact is still largely ahead of us, as in many countries there remains a deep contradiction between the existing institutional structures and those that would be adapted to their underlying technological means. Within such a context many people believe that we are on the cusp of a fundamental transformation in our political-economy, in how we choose to organize society in r...

According to Quartz says that "Artificial Intelligence is software or a computer program with a mechanism to learn. It then uses that knowledge to make a decision in a new situation, as humans do. The researchers building this software try to write code that can read images, text, video, or audio, and learn something from it. Once a machine has learned, that knowledge can be put to use elsewhere", means that the AI powered machines don't need to take breaks or rest and they can analyze massive volumes of information all at once. AI based technologies are already being used to help human benefit from significant improvements and increased efficiency in nearly every area of life. Artificial Intelligence is able to see, hear and comprehend. means that it can see the computer vision, hear speech recognition and understand the natural language processing more than ever before. Because this was once a uniquely human characteristics, AI will open up a whole new worl...

With the recent attention on the data Facebook data Cambridge Analytica obtained and Mark Zuckerberg taking a beating in the press and congress, here is the creating Facebook application and using the Facebook Application Programming Interface (API). In 2010, Facebook encouraged developers to create application to serve its users. Facebook provided an API that would allow developers to program access the data for user could see for free, Facebook wasn't selling the data. SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS ON FACEBOOK It took the key concepts of Network Metrics from the field of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and combined it with graphical display of clusters to make it easy to visualize relationships among friends. each box (picture) is a person or group, and the lines represent connections between them It analyzed your network of friends based on your friends' relationship to your other friends. Clusters and individuals were also grouped by distance from your core group...

Social Network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures. The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics. The social network is a theoretical construct useful in the social sciences to study relationships between individuals, groups, organizations, or even entire societies.  The term is used to describe a social structure determined by such interactions, the ties through which any given social unit connects represent the convergence of the various social contacts of that unit. (Wikipedia)