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Thesis full text PDF (in Italian) - Politecnico di Milano

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The follow<strong>in</strong>g table (fig. 11) shows how, even the weights’ values, are subjectedto a changes, <strong>in</strong>troduc<strong>in</strong>g the mo<strong>di</strong>fication.In particular, are shown the default weights used <strong>in</strong> order to calculate the user’s“productivity” <strong>in</strong><strong>di</strong>cator, tak<strong>in</strong>g also <strong>in</strong>to consideration its membership’s category(job profession).As for the case implemented, the values have been obta<strong>in</strong>ed observ<strong>in</strong>g, for eachuser’s category, the social activity dur<strong>in</strong>g a delta-time period (default Δ=1month),related to a sample of five profiles every social network considered.Productivity<strong>in</strong><strong>di</strong>cator's weights(Δ=1month)Twitter(tweets)Facebook(posts)SlideShare(presentations)YouTube(videos)Politics 80 250 0 60S<strong>in</strong>gers 130 100 0 5Come<strong>di</strong>ans 100 180 0 30Professors 80 130 4 0,7Students 50 200 0 0,2Figure 11 - Default weights that will be used by the application <strong>in</strong> order to calculatethe "productivity" <strong>in</strong><strong>di</strong>cator accord<strong>in</strong>g with the user’s category.By <strong>in</strong>troduc<strong>in</strong>g the mo<strong>di</strong>fication expla<strong>in</strong>ed above, the computation of an <strong>in</strong><strong>di</strong>cator,can be performed us<strong>in</strong>g as before the values collected, properly weighed, butmak<strong>in</strong>g also a f<strong>in</strong>al normalization, consider<strong>in</strong>g all the data collected related to theothers users of the same category, gett<strong>in</strong>g as a result, a value between “0” and“100”, which can be <strong>di</strong>splayed through the new graphical <strong>in</strong><strong>di</strong>cator.The improvement proposed, not yet implemented, not only will permit to avoidsudden changes of the <strong>in</strong><strong>di</strong>cators (values too high or too low) due to possible<strong>in</strong>homogeneity between subscribed users, but also, it will provide to them, thepossibility to make a first comparison between the others subscribed of the samecategory, just look<strong>in</strong>g, thanks to the normalization, to the graphical <strong>in</strong><strong>di</strong>cators.41

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