Which do you think more people would lie, online or face-to-face? Here is an interesting talk by Jeff Hancock on TED.
Although it is scientifically true, what he finds seems to be needed more evidence in order to prove his insistence, I think. For instance, people more easily write like "I'm on my way" on twitter than other social media or email, because tweets are usually assumed as not serious even if some of them lie or overstate.
Anyway, this is very inspiring!!
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Which Sports Is The Most Attractive For Writers
I'm a big fan of baseball, though, I would not mention it if visiting the UK. In the UK, I would pretend to like playing football. This comes from a result of the Books Ngram Viewers by Google. If you are wondering what Ngram Viewers is, see the following talk!
I tried several words in the Ngram, and then I found something interest by a combination of terms of sports. Here is my example:
English
I chose five sports for this analysis; (1) Baseball, (2) Football, (3) Tennis, (4) Golf, and (5) Cricket. At first, I picked several other sports like polo (I think this word is used not only for describing a sport but also for other meanings like polo shirts), wrestling, swimming, basketball, hockey and so on. But, I thought the five sports which I picked are interesting because of having well variations. At 2000, Baseball is the most frequently used in the above graph! Yeah! However, as you can guess, when this result falls into American and British English, ...
American English
British English
In the American English, Golf was the most popular for writers to mention during the early twentieth century. Also, before baseball was a popular sport in the US, cricket was in style in the late nineteenth century. It's surprising for me! Of course, cricket has been popular in the UK (+India) as shown in the British English, while baseball has been the worst attractive for writers who use British English.
One more thing I want to state here is the influence of wars on sports. Even my graphs show the evidence that less frequent words regarding sports were mentioned during the wars such as WWI, WWII, and Vietnam War. In particular, compared the American to British graph at 1960, there is a big difference. For example, tennis indicates the opposite trend between the American and British. My explanation for it is that Vietnam War has something to do with the trend because US involvement to the war escalated in the early 1960s and also there was Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Anyway, I recommend you play the Ngram!
I tried several words in the Ngram, and then I found something interest by a combination of terms of sports. Here is my example:
English
I chose five sports for this analysis; (1) Baseball, (2) Football, (3) Tennis, (4) Golf, and (5) Cricket. At first, I picked several other sports like polo (I think this word is used not only for describing a sport but also for other meanings like polo shirts), wrestling, swimming, basketball, hockey and so on. But, I thought the five sports which I picked are interesting because of having well variations. At 2000, Baseball is the most frequently used in the above graph! Yeah! However, as you can guess, when this result falls into American and British English, ...
American English
In the American English, Golf was the most popular for writers to mention during the early twentieth century. Also, before baseball was a popular sport in the US, cricket was in style in the late nineteenth century. It's surprising for me! Of course, cricket has been popular in the UK (+India) as shown in the British English, while baseball has been the worst attractive for writers who use British English.
One more thing I want to state here is the influence of wars on sports. Even my graphs show the evidence that less frequent words regarding sports were mentioned during the wars such as WWI, WWII, and Vietnam War. In particular, compared the American to British graph at 1960, there is a big difference. For example, tennis indicates the opposite trend between the American and British. My explanation for it is that Vietnam War has something to do with the trend because US involvement to the war escalated in the early 1960s and also there was Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Anyway, I recommend you play the Ngram!
Friday, October 28, 2011
Interesting Toy
The tool looks like very interesting. I'd like to play it. Some of the function seem difficult for children to use, but it also means that adults enjoy playing it. The last function is especially my favorite.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
A new function for Facebook
I've wondered why Facebook doesn't have a function to connect with friends' friends by a friend's recommendation.
Suppose I'm looking for a person who speak English to develop my English skills via chatting on face-to-face or Skype like a conversation partner. And then, When I post that comment on the Facebook, although by far some friends see it, they usually wouldn't introduce me to their friends who have the same needs like wanting to speak Japanese to improve his/her skills -- because I'm Japanese, so both become win-win. -- as a friend (I mean as a friend who is on the Facebook, not necessarily to be a real friend.). Existing function is, for example, "Find friends." This gives us an opportunity to find a new friend through being able to see our friends' friends. However, this is not a good way to connect with people, in my opinion. Generally, when in our community friends' friends are connected with each other, an intermediary -- in this case, a direct friend between both friends' friends -- plays a significant role to this accomplishment because he/she knows information regarding both of them well. He/she can match up between them well.
With those idea, my suggestion is to create a new tool: "Want" and "Recommend" buttons. First, I'd like to explain about the "Want" function. If a person is looking for a textbook and want to know about the class at the same time, one of the best solution is to make a friend who already took that class and want to sell the textbook. First, that person posts that message on the "Want" like an usual Facebook comment. But, this "Want" function spreads that comment to all friends or friends who that person designated (This function is similar to the event function.). And then, if the friends who received that message have frieds' friends who would meet the request, they can introduce that friends' friends to him/her by using "Recommend" function. When using the "Recommend," the message is forwarded to that friends' friends as a friend's recommendation, and to the person who used "Want" too. And then, if both that friends' friends and the person agree with the offer, they can become a friend.
"Want" and "Recommend" function provides a win-win opportunity for us. But, my story is not the end here. My idea is not only to give a win-win situation to friends' friends and the requester, but also a profit to the intermediary. The intermediary is like a matchmaker. Although some people are a good matchmaker, they are not known well sometimes. So, when the intermediary did tie up between friends' friends by using "Recommend" button, their "Profile" on the Facebook lets him/her show "Matchmaking" like "Friend" and "Family" so that friends can see. As a result, the intermediaries may get a trust from friends and even make a new friend by that signaling effect as a matchmaker.
So far, I don't know such service. If you know anything like that, let me know. And, what do you think such service?
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| Photo: halifaxlight |
With those idea, my suggestion is to create a new tool: "Want" and "Recommend" buttons. First, I'd like to explain about the "Want" function. If a person is looking for a textbook and want to know about the class at the same time, one of the best solution is to make a friend who already took that class and want to sell the textbook. First, that person posts that message on the "Want" like an usual Facebook comment. But, this "Want" function spreads that comment to all friends or friends who that person designated (This function is similar to the event function.). And then, if the friends who received that message have frieds' friends who would meet the request, they can introduce that friends' friends to him/her by using "Recommend" function. When using the "Recommend," the message is forwarded to that friends' friends as a friend's recommendation, and to the person who used "Want" too. And then, if both that friends' friends and the person agree with the offer, they can become a friend.
"Want" and "Recommend" function provides a win-win opportunity for us. But, my story is not the end here. My idea is not only to give a win-win situation to friends' friends and the requester, but also a profit to the intermediary. The intermediary is like a matchmaker. Although some people are a good matchmaker, they are not known well sometimes. So, when the intermediary did tie up between friends' friends by using "Recommend" button, their "Profile" on the Facebook lets him/her show "Matchmaking" like "Friend" and "Family" so that friends can see. As a result, the intermediaries may get a trust from friends and even make a new friend by that signaling effect as a matchmaker.
So far, I don't know such service. If you know anything like that, let me know. And, what do you think such service?
Thursday, September 16, 2010
I cannot imagine it before I see it
Today I went to Fry's for the first time with D, my host's friend. There were a lot of interesting products. What I was most interesting in the products was an electric fan by Dyson. It is a very fashionable shape, and looks like a magnifying glass. My surprising point was that Air Multiplier, the product's name, has no blades. It is amazing for me. What do you think about it? It because I thought a fan always had blades before I had seen Air Multiplier.
I just want to say "Innovation is super!" By an innovation, we are sometimes noticed or recognized somethings about which we have never thought. Today my host father was also surprised at Kindle, though I don't have it and I am wondering whether I buy it or not so far. The reason why surprised was a speed that he bought a book online and then Kindle got it immediately! We don't need to wait for a cashier in the bookstore. Hmm...unbelievable!
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| Air Multiplier by Dyson.com |
I just want to say "Innovation is super!" By an innovation, we are sometimes noticed or recognized somethings about which we have never thought. Today my host father was also surprised at Kindle, though I don't have it and I am wondering whether I buy it or not so far. The reason why surprised was a speed that he bought a book online and then Kindle got it immediately! We don't need to wait for a cashier in the bookstore. Hmm...unbelievable!
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