Metadata and social network analysis

Remember the furor a month or two ago when it came to the national attention that the United States government was conducting analysis of phone records? How the claim was that they weren’t using the contents of our phone conversations and SMS messaging, merely looking at the metadata these records could provide? One of the…

Spotify Recommendation Engine

Loving the Spotify recommendation emails I get, although probably not for the reasons they’d prefer. The best thing about them is that they give the reasoning behind the recommendations. Based on this you can get a rough visualization of the Eigenvalue matrix they use to make these suggestions. For example: Simon & Garfunkel The most…