Comments on: What does MIT think about me?

By: Margaret Gold

Margaret Gold — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:41:46 +0000

Hey Cathy,

Very cool interface, and I love how they show the results. But mine is WAY wrong. Too many other Margaret Golds out there, so it was picking up on too many people’s data. I need a way to switch off sources I know are false sources.

And I got tons of input going in from geneology sites as well. Those would need blocking to make this more accurate.

By: Daniel Appelquist

Daniel Appelquist — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:23:56 +0000

Similar result for me (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/torgo/3973450349/). Big “sports” bar and I’m pretty much a sports-moron. Maybe it’s from picking up my tweets on cycling in London? Also where is “fashion” coming from?

Dan

By: Online There’s More Than One of You « vicchi.org

Online There’s More Than One of You « vicchi.org — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:40:50 +0000

[...] this morning, (ex Yahoo!) Cathy Ma posted a link to her recent blog post about the Personas project being run by Aaron Zinman at MIT. Personas tries to “show you how [...]

By: cathyma

cathyma — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:35:36 +0000

I synced my Wordpress RSS with facebook so when you read notes on my facebook, it’s actually blogs updated here. I don’t think there’s an official share button with the result yet, so I’ve done a screen grab and uploaded that to Flickr then linked to this blog – quite a detour though :p

Yes for me turned my out name combination is still quite unique on the internet, so the data crawled is pretty accurate. Except there’s a very cute lady on facebook in bikinis – which is not me btw ;)

By: lingjie

lingjie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:16:57 +0000

Hi Cathy, following your prompt, I had a go as well. It seems it has picked up a lot of info with other people of the same name. I was watching the whole process closely. there are a few research papers that should be credited to another ‘lingjie Wang’..

Anyway, it was fun. How did you publish this on your facebook?

By: Isofarro

Isofarro — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:47:39 +0000

Trying out my real name first and I see it pulling in information about other people with the same name – the politician, the board member, the fitness trainer, the religious one.

Trying my pseudonym gives better results. Looks like the tool is pulling in what other people are saying about ‘the keyword’ directly (“I think”, “I know”) and analysing those statements for ‘behavioural-type’ keywords.

Its interesting. (Apparently I’m social – lol!)
http://isolani.co.uk/mystuff/persona.png

Mike