What can we create that uses data to improve the lives of individuals? We started by generating some ideas, then came at it from a couple other directions around the data itself.
Initial Project Ideas
Procrastination app
- Computer break
- ADD
- study open tabs in browser
iPhone as psychologist
- patterns (shopping etc)
- mood and psyche (knows when you’re distressed)
- articulate your problem, but also to communicate it silently
Farming app
- For small-plot farmers internationally
- “urban farmer movement”:
- people who are raising small plots of crops in their backyards, public lands etc.
Follow entities
- News aggregation by topic/entity
- socialflow.com
- Visual layout of popularity (e.g. retweeting)
- Octopus
- “Like everything on Facebook day”
- analytics, user data – lower incentive to buy user’s data
- Wolfram Alpha Facebook app
Where does data come from?
Where?
- On your person
- Nearby
- Network
When?
- Past Point
- Past Range
- Present
- Future Point
- Future Range
Source?
- Sensors
- People
- Experts
- Friends
- Random users
- Database
How does this data affect how we are perceived?
- How insurable are you?
- How does what you do online affect insurance premiums?
- actuarial tables
- How employable are you?
- pay level
- type of employer
- Dateable?
- Looks evil, but isn’t actually evil
- single page summary of findings
- can be used on the fly by judges
- gallery of incriminating photos
- sexual orientation?
- change of ratings over time
- email notifications?
- klout
- d-bag or nice guy?
- what stuff you like
- man in 60’s vs grandson today
- how are major life events affected by social media?
- how could this expand?
- graph search
- face recognition
- instances from news where people were judged like this?
If data is used this way, what could go wrong?
- Facebook experience is ruined
- Hacked
- Cease and desist/legal issues
