2014年3月10日星期一

Entry 3


Response to “The Data Miner’s Guide to Romance”
It is a pretty interesting reading with its original topic which is to provide guide to romance by the data miners. In the reading the author uses PowerPoint to displays many collected photo data and analyzes them by using statistics among with some sentences’ explanation in words. It is a creative way that makes the contents more visual and vivid, and also attracts readers and helps them learn information better.
From the reading, the author provides several tips about how to write perfect profile and take nice photos which help audience to be more attractive. For instance, the second tip: reverse and engineer your photo. By demonstrating various avatar photos as examples, and with interesting comparative and statistical method, it clearly shows the idea of how to take great photos for profile. And it is also effective that optimizing for our target audience by comparing two different kinds of collected data from oneself and suitors, with specific category and pictures provided.
Overall, the reading shows a creative and effective example of data collection and analysis which is worth learning, but also it is not an easy method for us with its complex process of collecting and demonstrating data.

1 条评论:

  1. It's also interesting that we are able to collect qualitative data in such a subjective area as attraction. A good summary here, though what are your thoughts about it?

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