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Personas: A colorful representation of how the Internet sees you

by avital on 3/1/10, 11:35 AM with 0 comments

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.