Collective Intelligence in Action

Collective Intelligence in Action
Publisher: Manning Publications | 2008-10-28 | ISBN: 1933988312 | Pages: 425 | PDF | 7.3 MB

There's a great deal of wisdom in a crowd, but how do you listen to a thousand people talking at once? Identifying the wants, needs, and knowledge of internet users can be like listening to a mob.
In the Web 2.0 era, leveraging the collective power of user contributions, interactions, and feedback is the key to market dominance. A new category of powerful programming techniques lets you discover the patterns, inter-relationships, and individual profiles-the collective intelligence--locked in the data people leave behind as they surf websites, post blogs, and interact with other users.

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