i did my presentation this morning! i feel like it went well, and the session format was really great — i think it allowed for much more in-depth critique and analysis of the ideas tossed around in the session. i’ve posted our slides here.
Posts under ‘tagging’
folders vs. tagging
today i read a paper from ASIST 2008, on a question i’ve wanted to find an answer to for a couple of years now: in head-to-head competition, are folders or tags better for PIM? the paper is “Better to Organize Personal Information by Folders Or by Tags? The Devil Is in the Details” by Andrea [...]
what makes for a “useful” tag?
I was reading an article in The New Yorker, titled The Science of Success by James Surowiecki, about prediction markets. A paragraph at the end of the article caught my attention:
The collective intelligence of consumers isn’t perfect—it’s just better than other forecasting tools. The catch is that to get good answers from consumers you need [...]
paper deadline madness
i was in “must finish this paper by friday at 8pm” mode for most of last week, and part of the week before. the CSCW 2008 papers & notes deadline was the 18th at 5pm pacific time. for those of us in the eastern time zone, it actually feels like we get three extra hours. [...]
revisiting LSA of tag data
Back in April, I spent a little bit of time thinking about whether it might be possible to apply Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to tag data scraped from del.icio.us. Typically, LSA is used for information retrieval. It relies on singular value decomposition (SVD), which is a mathematical ‘relative’ of factor analysis, to create a statistical [...]
