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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.

 

The Future of Education at #svc2uk

Tonight the annual Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge event kicked of with a session on the Future of Education.

Six panelists outlined their vision of educations future in ten minutes or so each, I captured the audio and made rough notes using my LiveScribe pen. The full commentary is now live here. My take on the speakers is:-

First up was the Cambridge Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz who mentioned the Catch22 the University was in regarding the so called Grand Challenge funding method the Government is proposing with such funding being at the expense of many small grants. I was also surprised that they are not increasing undergraduate numbers only PhD’s and Post Docs.

Next up was Greg Joswiak Apple’s iPod and iPhone marketing czar, who surprisingly wasn’t happy about giving a talk without slides, he at to use his iPad instead. Main fact is that in 18months more iPad’s are now in education in the USA than regular computers. Another fact was the huge number of educational apps and their volumes . The Open university app has had about 40 million downloads.

Next was the impressive Raj Kapoor an excellent speaker who left you feeling energised and that things have already changed with companies like LiveMocha in language (over 1 billion folks want or need to learn English). Voxy offering contextural English learning (In a Doctors will teach medical terms, at a station travel terms). and ClassDojo to help with motivating kids in the classroom (1/2 million downloads in first 6 weeks!). Also spoke about the degree mills in the USA and boundless learning. Plus the amazing celebrity professors in Korea who have become brands in their own right! All very exciting and vibrant.

Reid Hoffman of linkedIn fame was next mentioning that education was currently in a bubble with a poor return on investment and that people should be asking what is the taget of education. Interesting analogy was between teaching sports and entrepreneurship. You can learn the rules but it won’t make you a great player. He also mentioned the great success of the Khan Academy in reaching out to students in a non orthodox way. Another insight was that with online learning spending $5-30million dollars can help to educate tens of millions of people.

Joi Ito then started saying he was a double college drop out! and in his new role as Director at the MIT media lab he has students asking him why should they continue 🙂 His reply is that if it was there he would have stayed. They have emphasis on Construction not Instruction and the importance on learning to think in an era of abundance of information.

Finally we had Rohan Silva emphasising just how geeky our latest government is  and how they intend to digitise our public services. Apparently in the next few weeks a major new government Initiative is going to be launched on teaching coding in schools. (I wonder if it will use the new £15 Rasberry Pi computer 🙂 )

Ironically I’m afraid I had to dash off before the questions to attend to grand parent duties as the parents were due for a parents evening.

As an experiment here are my notes and audio stream (clicking on the text will take you to that section of the audio):

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Cambridge -UK – Open Coffee

Jed at OpenCoffee

Just back from the inaugural OpenCoffee meet up in Cambridge, UK. Organised by Jed. The event was in Cafe Nero on Kings Parade in Cambridge. A total of about 20 folks (Only two from the fairer sex, Juliette and ? Laura where did you get too!)  turned up. I was, of cause, easily the oldest there!

It was a good turn out of VC’s, Angels and entrepreneurs with a lot of new faces to prove that the Cambridge scene is still as vibrant as ever. I met Chris from audioanalytic, Adriano? of Hotprints, Peter from Broadersheet plus Laurence & Alex.

Pretty ideal for a first event and actually worked very well in the regular coffee shop environment (apart from getting told to sit down once by the baristas). I quite like the slightly anarchic nature of the event compared to the regular structured evenings that are the norm around here, and it works better than in a pub type environment in my opinion. I can see why the coffee places were so popular in the 1700s

Will be interesting to see where it goes from here. Apparently there is another newish event, CamCreative next week at The Arts so will go and compare and contrast.

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