Boing Boing Posting Analysis

Posted by Marshall on August 08, 2006 | Link It

Looks like someone has been analyzing the posting patterns of Boing Boing

 

Appears that a categorizer is being used that creates maps, like the one above.

How well is the categorizer working ? Let’s look at the posts which most closely match some of the given 3rd level topics.

For Photography:

  1. Top Ten Digital Photography Tips (2003/03/26)
  2. Infrared portrait photography (2005/11/10)
  3. Digital Sensor Is Said to Match Quality of Film (2002/02/11)

I’m not sure what the value of this categorization is - I find the maps interesting, of themselves.  I’d like the abililty to breakdown any site using maps such as this - and if there’s a way to do that (or a product that does that - perhaps the categorization software used here) I’d like to know more about it.



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