Welcome to week 5 - part of the 60 day information management refresher course from the CORTEX.
Week 5, Day 1
Theme: Analytic Errors
Week 5, Monday
This week's theme is mistakes. Today we look at the analytic implications with the old trick of astroturfing finding new impetus in social media.
LISTEN Today's task: Don't trust the web 23MB (also streamed below)
50 minutes
'Don't Trust The Web', presented by Hagar Cohen, ABC Radio National's Background Briefing. Broadcast yesterday. Also available online here.
Key takeout: Armies of analysts are being employed to mine social media. It should be commonly accepted that social media will suffer from a variety of types of manipulation. How often, though, are these biases taken into account? How does this impact the quality of the resulting analysis?
As always, comments, questions and ideas are all welcome.
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