See also 2012 notes for this class.
This week we began our study of filtering with some basic ideas about its role in journalism. Then we shift gears to pure algorithmic approaches to filtering, with a look at how the Newsblaster system works (similar to Google News.)
Required
- Who should see what when? Three design principles for personalized news Jonathan Stray
- Tracking and summarizing news on a daily basis with Columbia Newsblaster, McKeown et al
Recommended
- Guess what? Automated news doesn’t quite work, Gabe Rivera
- The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around, or What You Do With a Million Books, Stephen Ramsay
- Can an algorithm be wrong?, Tarleton Gillespie
- The Netflix Prize, Wikipedia
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