Reality mining explores a huge dataset on individual & group human behavior by capturing communication, proximity, location, & activity information from 100 subjects at MIT.
Several different interactive visualizations have been implemented to represent this huge, time-based dataset (approximately 350,000 hours or ~40 years of continious data on call logs, bluetooth devices in proximity, cell tower IDs, application usage, & phone status such as charging/idle).
So where's the value here? Taking the high road, MIT researchers say that you can use this sort of data to understand how organizational dynamics happen at work. You could streamline workflows and improve interoffice dynamics. As one example of reality mining, the Red Sox won the pennant during the study -- and the smartphones noted that it threw all the participants' behaviors into a tizzy. That reminds me of back during the first gulf war--Desert Storm--news outlets discovered that whenever Pentagon staffers stayed late and ordered lots of delivery pizza, something big was about to happen in the Middle East. So it sounds like we can think of Reality Mining as an automated way to collect intelligence about our lives through tell-tale signs like phone calls to pizza delivery restaurants.
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See that post with different algorithms in metabole
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