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Automated System Can Rewrite Outdated Sentences In Wikipedia

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Automated System Can Rewrite Outdated Sentences In Wikipedia. A system created by MIT researchers could be used to automatically update factual inconsistencies in Wikipedia articles, reducing time and effort spent by human editors who now do the task manually. There are so many updates constantly needed to Wikipedia articles.

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Research-Driven Ideas for Social Data

Mindjumpers

Predictive Modeling of Social Activity. This primarily demonstrated the extent to which Twitter activity reflects social activity. Since some crime types relate heavily to social activity, Twitter can thus enhance prediction of certain criminal activities. Facebook data was collected from over 60k users and 1.5m

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Using word clouds in communications analysis

Sherrilynne Starkie

According to Wikipedia a word cloud is a visual representation for text data, typically used to visualize free form text. For example if a respondent repeats the question asked in the answer (as is frequently the case) you can’t suppress those words which often gives an inaccurate representation of key words.

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7 Effective Call-to-Action Examples and Why They Work

Writtent Blog

Wikipedia defines a call-to-action this way: A call to action, or CTA, is a banner, button, or some type of graphic or text on a website meant to prompt a user to click it and continue down a conversion funnel. LinkedIn , for example, uses customer testimonials to show the importance of growing your professional network.

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Gamification: Why Play?

Mindjumpers

The post contained an infographic that predicted the most popular online activity and trend of the future to be location-based services such as Foursquare and Facebook Places. More than 130 games on Facebook have over 1 million monthly active users. Take Foursquare as an example. A small example.

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Social Media Insecurity: What to do When Online Activity Affects.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social media is about helping one another and building real strong friendships, usually around a certain interest or activity. If my actively engaged social media colleague James posts a photo of his young son Harold on his Facebook page, James might expect comments by me and other peers who may not know the mother of that child.

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Why SEOs Need to Pay Attention to Freebase

Bill Hartzer

And Freebase, as well as Wikipedia and a host of other sources, make up the Knowledge Graph. Let’s take, for example, a search for my name, Bill Hartzer, over at Bing.com: Click on the image above to see a larger version of it. Information from Freebase is being actively used RIGHT NOW in Bing.

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