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I've no quibble with what it found out about https://twitter.com/erbo https://twitter.com/erbo except that it labeled me as a "parent" when I'm not. What's it
by erbo 13y ago
I've no quibble with what it found out about https://twitter.com/erbo https://twitter.com/erbo except that it labeled me as a "parent" when I'm not. What's it basing that assessment on? Or would that be telling?
- tdas 13y agoWithout going too much into the details: we analyze a user's public posts and the network structure to probabilistically infer the data.
- erbo 13y agoI wonder what I tweeted or what it is about my network that would cause you to infer that I'm a parent when I'm not? Of course, as you say, it's probabilistic, meaning it's not "wrong" that it incorrectly identifies me in particular as a parent; it's only "wrong" if a large number of those parent/non-parent inferences are incorrect over all analyzed accounts.
- markdown 13y agoIt said I was employed and owned a dog and car. I'm a freelancer, and don't own a dog or a car. Further, I don't remember tweeting about any of those things in the past year, if at all.
- a-priori 13y agoI just ran it on myself and a friend of mine (who's far more prolific than I am on Twitter). It said we're both parents, but neither of us are. It didn't get that I'm married (I guess I haven't ever mentioned my wife).