Web Science/Part2: Emerging Web Properties/Collective Intelligence
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Course elements
- PART1: Week1: Ethernet · Internet Protocol · Week2: Transmission Control Protocol · Domain Name System · Week3: Internet vs world wide web · HTTP · Week4: Web Content · Dynamic Web Content
- PART2: Week5: How big is the Web? · Descriptive Web Models · Week6: Advanced Statistic Models · Modelling Similarity · Week7: Generative Modelling of the Web · Graph theoretic Web Modelling
- PART3: Week8 : Investigating Meme Spreading · Herding Behaviour · Week9: Online Advertising · User Modelling
- PART4: Week10 : Copyright · Net neutrality · Week11: Internet governance · Privacy
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9th week due Jan 10th
The Web as a Social Machine: Collective intelligence and Human Computing[edit | edit source]Definition of collective intelligence Examples of collective intelligence
Mechanisms behind collective intelligence
* e.g. Gaussian error for estimating size of an object * e.g. natural bias toward positive for evaluation of products (where do we re-find a paper for this?)
* high enough systematic error leads to optimal estimation
Google Flu Trends and its Limits http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/big-data-google-versagt-bei-grippe-vorhersagen-1.1912226 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7232/abs/nature07634.html http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6176/1203 Models of attention
Conclusion:
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