Looking for the "real truth"
Differences working styles
In a minute
30 - 60 mins
Working with data
Large scale
Nightmare
Graph mining libary
View
Overview
General behaviour patterns
Find new answers
Smaller subset of data
Datamining
Data cleaning
Data extraction
Analytical part
Statisticla package
Statistical modeling
Practical industry applications
Skills to get information
Processing terabytes of data
Approaches
Understand regularities
How users behave
Preferential attachment processes
Designing a product
Underline distribution
Popular communities
Power regularities
Understand users behaviour
Understanding users interactions
At a micro level
Interactions
Consequences at a macro level
Behaviour
Users perception
What buttons to click on
What explanaitions to pay attention
Behaviour
Quantitive data to understand user behaviour
Context
Social media trinity
Content
Define the community
Audience
Context
Circles at Google+
Proxemics
Edward Halls
How people interact
Different social distances
Public space
Social space
Personal space
Intimate space
How people use social networks?
Communication devices
Broadcasting devices
Goals
Construct circles like in real life
Selective sharing model
Selectrively share information
Sharing different pieces of content
Organize social network activity
User can manage his/her content
Sharing?
What they share?
Experiences
Work
School
Organizations
Personal experience
Oppinions
Current event
Polytical issue
Why do people share?
Useful
Cool
Interesting
They want to enter on a conversation
Listening for
Help
Information from others
Spreading information on behalf of others
Selecting an audience
Privacy
Risks of sharing
Relevance of the content
Target content
Specific users
Avoiding irrelevant type of information
Maximize their audience
Photographer
How do you get stuff in front of people
Communities
Getting the right information from the people
Not to be considered spam
Building a community
Information ends up in the right hands
Stable community
Not necessary a growing community
Sustainable community
Interaction
Sharing
Avoid outside interaction
Producers vs consumers of the content
Long vs short posts
Consumers tweak their experience
What names they are giving
Top popular circles names
Languages
1000 most popular circle names
Active users
Motivation
Audience choices
Social in search
Influencing search results
Social pieces of information
Micro social interaction
Domain contacts
Not all ties are created equal
How social affects user behavoiur in search
Expertise affecting user behaviour
Are they relevant?
Social annotations
Contact expertise
Search intent
Contact closeness
Conclusions
URLs and titles
Third or fourth in the decision process
Micro interactions does not affect to the global interaction
Approaches
Ratings
Users similarities
Context symilarity
Information retrieval
Multi-method research
Different perspectives for the same question
Focus on the user ane everything else will follow
It is necessary to use more than one method
One methog=miopic perspective
Questions
Understanding how people are using things
How is a new feature really used
Google Hybrid approach to research
Embed on product teams
Researcher
Analytics
In the same team
Product development
Researchers
With engineers
With designers
Blurr the line between researchers and developments
Rapid prototyping
A discussion on Google's Hybrid approach to research
Users
Things to consider
They are not equal
Shared interests
Frequency of communication
Broker information
Context aware
Influencers
Methods to detect influential people
Degree
Shortest path
How central a user is
Page rank: influence algorithm
Which webpages are the most influential
Also for persons on a particular topic
Prefferential attachment
Rich get richer
Common neighbours
Weight influence of each edge
Wighted version
Unweighted version
Influencing influencers
Broadcast vs influence
Social actors
Foster collaboration