Episode 44: The predictive power of metadata - a podcast by Francesco Gadaleta

In this episode I don't talk about data. In fact, I talk about metadata.

While many machine learning models rely on certain amounts of data eg. text, images, audio and video, it has been proved how powerful is the signal carried by metadata, that is all data that is invisible to the end user.
Behind a tweet of 140 characters there are more than 140 fields of data that draw a much more detailed profile of the sender and the content she is producing... without ever considering the tweet itself.

 

References
You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfamus/papers/icwsm18.pdf

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