Tag Archives: inf115

Sentiment data from Twitter and Google Trends

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Great day of class, last Wednesday. It deserves a short summary, which I am publishing here. The basic idea for the class was the exploration of sentiments around a place, using Twitter. First I showed my students that Twitter admits … Continue reading →

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The riddle 50% of Harvard students got wrong

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Does it mean they are stupid? No, it actually means they are not pondering the question. Instead they get distracted by intuition and do not get to see there is a deeper sense to the problem. The problem itself, devised … Continue reading →

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The Department of Oxymoronics and Hitler’s testicles

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Antonio Vantaggiato

We were younger and very much under the spell-illusion that we were changing the world. I read Foucault’s Pendulum and I loved that book that mixed the Knights Templar and Rosicrucian with conspiracies with truths and falsehoods. And I laughed … Continue reading →

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News(papers) sans respect

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Another ethically hacked newspaper. This time, it’s local. Enjoy, again in the spirit of New Media inf115.

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What’s in Conversation?

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Reclaiming Conversation? Yes, this is a question, inspired as it is by Sherry Turkle’s new book (Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Penguin Press 2015,) and my friend Dan Ausbury’s own reflections which he’ll share with … Continue reading →

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