MIT Personas Your Online Identity
MIT Personas – how does the internet see you?
MIT have an online persona creator – put your name in, it scours the web then comes back with your information. The Ultimate Demographic of ONE. heh.
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer’s uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.Personas was created by Aaron Zinman, with help from Alex Dragulescu, Yannick Assogba and Judith Donath.
So how does the internet see me?
This is critical for personalized delivery of information, news and marketing contextually relevant messages.
Oh and I guess SilkCharm is not that different from Laurel Papworth after all!
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Now this is pretty a damned interesting project. "MIT Personas Your Online Identity" http://bit.ly/34btxT
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wow, i just did it! I do need to become far more evolved really! Laurel your melting pot of complications.. me i seem quite well common! π
…you must be MALE π
This is the part that confuses the John Lacey story online:
There are too many plebs with my name so it produces this fascinating (and somewhat confusing) amalgamation of data.
.-= John Lacey´s last blog ..Shadows and Mistakes =-.
RT @SilkCharm: MIT personas – MIT aggregator that calculates your personality by scouring the web http://twurl.nl/rerh2p kinda cool.
Thanks for pointing this out. I need to get more of a life as I only have 5 items on my persona chart.
Ah but I ran it again and it changed. I’m guessing their database takes a couple of iterations to populate
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This is a cool little program, I just wish I could get it to work with me.
I have the same name as a doctor who wrote a pretty famous book, and the site produced content on him. Only he comes up when I google my real name also.
Also, I use the screen name 40deuce for everything I do, but the program doesn’t allow youto enter any numbers in the name field. Most of my online presence would be under 40deuce, but it’s unsearchable.
Alas, I’ll just have to think in my head that I’m amazing which I think is much more reliable than actual data π
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