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augusti 28, 2003
Data Mining the Amazon
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Angie Waller is a Los Angeles based artist whose latest work is a small book called Data Mining the Amazon. What Waller has done is to study the "Customers who bought this, also bought... " sections on Amazon.com and come up with a compilation of information that makes you chuckle and raise eyebrows in equal measure.
This whole process is called "data mining" and Waller uses it very cleverly to amuse and irritate. She herself admits that she does buy things that are recommended to her on these lists, but also revels in the fact that she can create an absurdly illogical profile that triggers "a flashing red light at some corporate headquarters causing a database to shut down and an internal investigation". I imagine you could do this if you bought a book by David Aaronovitch and an album by the Cheeky Girls.
Mer om boken, inklusive några bilder, finns på www.couchprojects.com.
Posted by hakank at augusti 28, 2003 10:02 FM Posted to Social Network Analysis/Complex Networks