There's a great deal of wisdom in a crowd, but how do you listen to a thousand people talking at once? Identifying the wants, needs, and knowledge of internet users can be like listening to a mob.\ In the Web 2.0 era, leveraging the collective power of user contributions, interactions, and feedback is the key to market dominance. A new category of powerful programming techniques lets you discover the patterns, inter-relationships, and individual profiles-the collective intelligence—locked in...
Giving insight to market dominance, this handbook explores programming techniques that reveal the patterns, inter-relationships, and individual profilesthe collective intelligencelocked in the data people leave behind as they surf Web sites, post blogs, and interact with other users.
1 Understanding collective intelligence 32 Learning from user interactions 203 Extracting intelligence from tags 504 Extracting intelligence from content 825 Searching the blogosphere 1076 Intelligent web crawling 1457 Data mining : process, toolkits, and standards 1758 Building a text analysis toolkit 2069 Discovering patterns with clustering 24010 Making predictions 27411 Intelligent search 30912 Building a recommendation engine 349 Index 389