Comments on: Can You Spot The Experts? Tagging and Expertise http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/03/can-you-spot-the-experts-tagging-and-expertise/ Graduate Student & Armchair Philosopher Wed, 04 May 2011 19:59:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dmac http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/03/can-you-spot-the-experts-tagging-and-expertise/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Dmac Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:19:21 +0000 http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/?p=166#comment-142 In general, I think that people tend to be more individualistic in terms of what they think is important when they consider themselves vaguely expert at something. In other words, people who know more will probably have very different opinions on what's most important, because they all have the basic framework/summary sorted out. My guess is that the bottom tag cloud belongs to those users who said that they were "slightly familiar", because most of the tags are quite evenly sized. On the same logic, I'd guess that the middle belongs to the "slightly familiar" users, and the top to the "not at all familiar". I'm also curious as to why "magazine" got such a sizable tag in all the tag clouds, as it occurred only once in the article. Of course, it was a magazine article, but it's interesting that the users thought that that was so important. In general, I think that people tend to be more individualistic in terms of what they think is important when they consider themselves vaguely expert at something. In other words, people who know more will probably have very different opinions on what’s most important, because they all have the basic framework/summary sorted out. My guess is that the bottom tag cloud belongs to those users who said that they were “slightly familiar”, because most of the tags are quite evenly sized. On the same logic, I’d guess that the middle belongs to the “slightly familiar” users, and the top to the “not at all familiar”.

I’m also curious as to why “magazine” got such a sizable tag in all the tag clouds, as it occurred only once in the article. Of course, it was a magazine article, but it’s interesting that the users thought that that was so important.

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