Telling Stories about People and Their Influence

Presentation by Ferenc Huszár, Data Scientist at PeeIndex at Data Science London 22/02/12

Transcript

1. Telling stories about people and their influence Ferenc Huszár Wednesday, 22 February 12
2. PeerIndex: understand your influence Wednesday, 22 February 12
3. PeerPerks: free stuff for influencers Wednesday, 22 February 12
4. How do we measure influence? Wednesday, 22 February 12
5. How do we measure influence? If Alice’s message gets retweeted, how much should I increase her influence score? Wednesday, 22 February 12
6. How do we measure influence? If Alice’s message gets retweeted, how much should I increase her influence score? V.S. Wednesday, 22 February 12
7. How do we measure influence? If Alice’s message gets retweeted, how much should I increase her influence score? V.S. If Alice is influential, how much more likely is it that her message gets retweeted? Wednesday, 22 February 12
8. How do we measure influence? If Alice’s message gets retweeted, how much should I increase her influence score? V.S. If Alice is influential, how much more likely is it that her message gets retweeted? influence is not a function of behaviour, it’s an explanation Wednesday, 22 February 12
9. So What is Data Science? V.S. data hypothesis hypothesis data Wednesday, 22 February 12
10. So What is Data Science? V.S. data hypothesis hypothesis data “data science is not about counting patterns in data, it’s about building an understanding of why they are there” Wednesday, 22 February 12
11. Data Science in PeerIndex Wednesday, 22 February 12
12. Data Science in PeerIndex data infrastructure Wednesday, 22 February 12
13. Data Science in PeerIndex data infrastructure influence research Wednesday, 22 February 12
14. Data Science in PeerIndex data infrastructure business intelligence influence research Wednesday, 22 February 12
15. Data Science in PeerIndex data infrastructure product design business intelligence influence research Wednesday, 22 February 12
16. Data Science in PeerIndex data infrastructure sales analytics product design business intelligence influence research Wednesday, 22 February 12
17. Data Science in PeerIndex data infrastructure marketing analytics sales analytics product design business intelligence influence research Wednesday, 22 February 12
18. Wrap up Wednesday, 22 February 12
19. Wrap up • check out PeerIndex, let us know what you think Wednesday, 22 February 12
20. Wrap up • check out PeerIndex, let us know what you think • data scientists tell stories to explain the data Wednesday, 22 February 12
21. Wrap up • check out PeerIndex, let us know what you think • data scientists tell stories to explain the data • data science extends well beyond technology Wednesday, 22 February 12
22. Thanks ... and extra points for for spelling my name correctly Wednesday, 22 February 12