Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Category: cambridge

Big Data Magic Source

Fun Talk last night was by David Stillwell a Cambridge University Lecturer in Big Data Analytics & Quantitative Social Science and
Academic Director of the Psychometrics Centre. Even though it did cost £5 for entry as it was put on by  CSAR.

Once again I forgot to take my phone so no images of his many slides. He originally developed the MyPersonality app on Facebook between 2007-12 which garnered over 6 million profiles predating the Cambridge Analytica scandal interestingly 30% of folks opted to give him their FB data,

His latest offering is https://applymagicsauce.com/   where you upload a zip file of your FB data. This is what it predicted for me from my posts and separately for my comments:

The following prediction is based on 4363 Facebook posts, from which 57743 words were used

Age

33

Your digital footprint suggests that your online behaviour resembles that of a 30-39 years old

Psychological Gender

Average (50%)
  • 16%
    Masculine
    Feminine
Your digital footprint suggests that you are Male

Big 5 Personality (Predictions are expressed as percentiles)Take personality test

Average (50%)
  • Conservative and Traditional
    51%
    Liberal and Artistic
  • Impulsive and Spontaneous
    56%
    Organized and Hard Working
  • 37%
    Contemplative
    Engaged with outside world
  • Competitive
    51%
    Team working and Trusting
  • 44%
    Laid back and Relaxed
    Easily Stressed and Emotional

Openness to experience describes a dimension of personality that distinguishes imaginative, creative people from down-to-earth, conventional people.

Your digital footprint suggests that you are aware of your own feelings but don’t get carried away with your imagination either. You might say that you embrace change when it is necessary while still resisting it when you think it is not, and that beauty is important to you, but it’s not everything.

Conscientiousness concerns the way in which we control, regulate, and direct our impulses.

Your digital footprint suggests that you are random and fun to be around but can also plan and persist when life requires it. It appears that depending on the situation, you can make quick decisions or deliberate for longer if necessary.

Extraversion is marked by pronounced engagement with the external world, versus being comfortable with your own company.

Your digital footprint suggests that you are similar to people who prefer low-key social occasions, with a few close friends. You might say that it’s not that you are afraid of large parties; they’re just not that fun for you.

Agreeableness reflects individual differences in concern with cooperation and social harmony.

Your digital footprint suggests that you get along well with others, especially once they have proved themselves to be trustworthy. You seem to have a healthy scepticism about others’ motives, but that doesn’t stop you from considering others to be basically honest and decent.

Neuroticism refers to the tendency to experience negative emotions.

Your digital footprint suggests that you are generally calm. You come across as someone who can feel emotional or stressed out by some experiences, but your feelings tend to be warranted by the situation.

Leadership Potential 

 

Average

 

49%

Jungian Personality Type 

Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging

ISTJs thrive on organisation. They keep their lives and environments well-regulated. They bring painstaking attention to detail in their work and will not rest until satisfied with a job well done. ISTJs are faithful, logical, organized, sensible, and earnest traditionalists. They earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Shutting out distractions, they take a practical, logical approach to their endeavors. Realistic and responsible, they work steadily toward their goals. They enjoy creating order in both their professional and personal lives.

ISTJs are persons of thoughts and (sometimes) emotions. They prefer dealing with the present and factual, using various options to make decisions.

 

The following prediction is based on 3117 Facebook comments, from which 34925 words were used

Age

33

Your digital footprint suggests that your online behaviour resembles that of a 30-39 years old

Psychological Gender

Average (50%)
  • 25%
    Masculine
    Feminine
Your digital footprint suggests that you are Male

Big 5 Personality (Predictions are expressed as percentiles)Take personality test

Average (50%)
  • Conservative and Traditional
    51%
    Liberal and Artistic
  • Impulsive and Spontaneous
    55%
    Organized and Hard Working
  • 41%
    Contemplative
    Engaged with outside world
  • 49%
    Competitive
    Team working and Trusting
  • 44%
    Laid back and Relaxed
    Easily Stressed and Emotional

Openness to experience describes a dimension of personality that distinguishes imaginative, creative people from down-to-earth, conventional people.

Your digital footprint suggests that you are aware of your own feelings but don’t get carried away with your imagination either. You might say that you embrace change when it is necessary while still resisting it when you think it is not, and that beauty is important to you, but it’s not everything.

Conscientiousness concerns the way in which we control, regulate, and direct our impulses.

Your digital footprint suggests that you are random and fun to be around but can also plan and persist when life requires it. It appears that depending on the situation, you can make quick decisions or deliberate for longer if necessary.

Extraversion is marked by pronounced engagement with the external world, versus being comfortable with your own company.

Your digital footprint suggests that you enjoy and actively seek out social occasions, but would say that they’re not everything. You might say that sometimes it is nice to step back for a while and have a quiet night in.

Agreeableness reflects individual differences in concern with cooperation and social harmony.

Your digital footprint suggests that you get along well with others, especially once they have proved themselves to be trustworthy. You seem to have a healthy scepticism about others’ motives, but that doesn’t stop you from considering others to be basically honest and decent.

Neuroticism refers to the tendency to experience negative emotions.

Your digital footprint suggests that you are generally calm. You come across as someone who can feel emotional or stressed out by some experiences, but your feelings tend to be warranted by the situation.

Conclusions

Nice to know they think I’m so young 🙂 which probably is why I don’t get too many funeral adverts 🙂
He suggested also going to https://myaccount.google.com/ to check out what Google knows.
My advertisers!

 

Another suggestion was to go too https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences  to see what advertisers are using their data on you for.

An interesting talk.

 

First test of my CTC leadership skills – Balsham to Isleham

Having been riding with the Cambridge CTC for the past 10 months I thought it was now time to try my hand at being a Group Leader on one of their City Thursday rides.

First thing I had to learn was that it’s the leader job to work out a route between the previously designated coffee stop and lunch stop. As well as satisfying the mileage requirements or timings coffee by 11 am lunch by 1 pm. My first route had a long route between coffee & lunch so was rated as poor so I returned to ridewithgps.com. Apparently, the preferred distances are 18/18/24 miles or thereabouts.  After some fiddling, I created this route which met all the criteria as well as satisfying myself on a different route out of the city avoiding both the DNA narrow track and the awful surface on the Barton road track.

So Thursday came with totally perfect cycling weather, I bumped into Simon coming down Gonville Place on the way to the start so I clearly wasn’t going to be on my own. In fact, 6  other riders showed up. I managed to get all their names for the required Registration Form, something I had been agonising over as I’m useless with faces & names.

Crossing The Lode

At 9.15 prompt we departed the first mistake of the day for me was that I didn’t designate a backmarker but Glynn kindly did it anyway. The second mistake was not having a rear view mirror so I couldn’t tell if I was on my own out front or with the group.

We made smooth progress through Grantchester and the new Trumpington Meadows Country Park. After passing around Whittlesford we discovered that Jeff had gone AWOL probably because we had deviated slightly from my published route, John went back but couldn’t find him so after 10 minutes we carried on the next holdup was Glyn scoring a puncture. However, we still made it to the wonderful Old Butchers cafe in Balsham at 11 am to meet up with the village group. I love the friendly rivalry between the city slickers and the village people. Jeff rejoined our group having got lost in the graveyard

After a very relaxing 30 minutes with a slight change in riders, we departed for Isleham along the B1052 through Newmarket at a decent pace on a good road. We arrived at The Griffin pub. at 12.45 way before the others. However, there was still quite a delay in getting our food since apparently, no one had warned them about 14 hungry cyclists turning up.

We returned home with the inevitable headwind across the fens to Wicken Fen and then along the Lode Way & new Quy cycleway back to Cambridge.

A splendid cycling day and a good introduction to ride leadership for me with an experienced group, although I MUST get a mirror.

Thanks to Seb for the header photo and post ride cuppa.

The days Strava:

Geoff’s Weather Station

Sally bought me a Oregon WMR88 weather station with anemometer, wind direction, outside temperature and rainfall gauges. I’ve finally have it working with the Asus Eee running XP Pro in its 8GB of memory and uploading the data through my WiFi to Wunderground. Giving the lovely chart above.

Next job is to mount the anemometer onto the TV aerial above the house to minimize ground effects. That can wait for the warmer weather though.

Ramble from Shelford to Haslingfield

Todays little walk was with the B team of The Cambridge Rambling Club, ably led by John, we set of from Great Shelford and ventured across to Haslingfield. We did quite a bit of road walking which with the mud and ice was probably just as well. Our lunchtime drink was at the Little Rose in Haslingfiled (no food served at lunch time). Followed by a tea and mince pies at John’s house in Shelford. Sally and I as A group walkers decided to add an extra 4 miles onto the day by walking back to Cambridge – exploring the not completed guided busway and very nearly getting stuck in a car park!

On the way I had an interesting talk with Paul who I discovered was another map geek plus we shared mutual friends from my Cavendish days.

Here is the walk and today’s pictures:-

Shelford – Haslingfileld walk

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