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Predicting the future success of researchers and their research…academic moneyball
A bit of a scary article on the LSE Impact blog. It is a piece about using various metrics to predict which academics will achieve future success, and also to predict which journal articles will be most successful. The idea … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, future of sociology, infrastructures, metrics, university, visualisation
Tagged Academic moneyball, prediction, research
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How Shazam uses big data to predict the next big artists
Apparently Shazam are making use of the data from their app to make predictions about which songs will be hits. This article gives some description of the process and predictions (thanks to Emma Uprichard for the link). Here we can … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, infrastructures, metrics, mobile devices, music, software
Tagged algorithm, prediction, Shezam, songs
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