Archive for March 22nd, 2008
Super Crunchers
At Pandora.com, users can type in a song or an artist that they like and almost instantaneously the website starts streaming song after song in the same genre.
MSNBC.com has recently added its own “recommended stories” feature. It uses a cookie to keep track of the sixteen articles you’ve most recently read and uses automated text analysis to predict what new stories you’ll want to read.
On the TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, “asking the audience” produces the right answer more than 90 percent of the time (while phoning an individual friend produces the right answer less than two-thirds of the time).
Does the above info intrigue you? If the answer is yes, if you want to know how thinking by the numbers – analyzing millions of info-bytes- provides people with greater insight into human behaviour and allows them to predict the future with staggeringly accurate results – Read .Ian Ayres. ground breaking book Super Crunchers
