I have attended this year’s facebook data analytics week, and I’m actually very excited to attend this for myself. I’m glad that Facebook has created this sort of event to really engage the users of their platform. I’m also glad that I’m able to attend and participate in it myself.
It’s not just the data that’s being collected, it’s the data that’s being analyzed. So that means companies like Facebook and Twitter have great insight into the behavior of their users. So now we’re able to get a clear picture of what is going on in the world and on our feeds. It’s also enabled us to learn something about ourselves from a larger perspective.
The event is held every year in the US. The goal is to better understand the lives of actual users of these social media platforms.
We all know how much we care about what happens on the Internet but how we consume it is equally important. Facebook has been collecting and using user data for quite some time now but they never really did anything with it. Their idea is to allow users to share their thoughts and feelings about the internet in ways that they are confident will go viral. For example, if a user writes about how they feel about a particular news story, then that story will pop up in their news feed.
Well, that’s exactly what they’ve done with their news feed. Over the past few days they’ve taken one of my favorite things in the world down, and I’m not complaining. I’ve been playing a game called Facebook Data Analytics Week on my phone. It’s basically a “what if?” game in which you put a list of questions in a column, and you have to guess which one is the answer.
Facebook has a lot of analytics tools in their platform to help you see how people are using your site, so if you asked a question about using social media for marketing purposes, Facebook would be happy to tell you which ones they like and which ones they don’t. If you ask a question about data mining or what types of surveys are most effective, Facebook would likely know that you’re interested in that.
facebook has some really clever statistics to help you figure out what kinds of questions you should be asking. The algorithm that Facebook uses to rank websites is called “Web Content Analysis,” or W3C (pronounced “wayc”). It works by taking a bunch of different data from across a website and trying to figure out what content is most important to that website.
One of the questions Facebook asks is: “What is the most important text, image, or video on this page?” The page with the best content is then ranked. In the case of facebook, the page that ranked highest was an article that talked about how to best use Facebook. So now that the content has been analyzed, you can see that you should focus on making sure your facebook page is awesome.
The whole point of this week is not to analyze data from different websites, but to help us figure out what is the most important content on various websites to those websites. I guess what I’m trying to say is that, like a lot of things, we can’t really predict what will be important to us based on our own lives and the things that happen to us, so we should try to figure out what’s important and what’s not.
It’s not just about figuring out what’s important. The most important thing is to make sure that our content is good at telling people what to do and how to do it. We all got free access to facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but what we don’t get to see and what we don’t see is what we want to see.
