Last week I presented our first Sidelines paper (with Daniel Zhou and Paul Resnick) at ICWSM in San Jose. Slides (hosted on slideshare) are embedded below, or you can watch a video of most of the talk on VideoLectures. Opinion and topic diversity in the output sets can provide individual and societal benefits. If news [...]
Tagged algorithm, BALANCE, conference, diversity, icwsm, news, politics, recommender systems, research, sidelinesWorking with Paul Resnick and Xiaodan Zhou, I’ve started a project to build political news aggregators that better reflect diversity and represent their users, even when there is an unknown political bias in the inputs. We’ll have more on this to say later, but for now we’re making available a Google gadget based on a [...]
Tagged aggregation, BALANCE, news, opinion, politics, researchSam Anderson’s article “Judging Your Friends by their Netflix Queue” made it onto a few blogs and the like over the past week, often with comments along the lines of “This article is totally true.” Anderson describes his initial reaction: When I first started looking at my friends’ Netflix lists, it felt a little creepy. [...]
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