Idea: Karmagram or chart ranking mechanism for social networks
Not everyone imagines what a chart ranking is, so first a bit of theory:
A chart ranking method.
In contrast to the usual ranking methods based on reducing all qualities into one and presenting them as a number (Karma is a good example), the essence of karmagram is in listing all the qualities inherent in the subject, evaluating each of them individually, and conveniently representing the resulting multidimensional pictures.
As we see, the picture strongly resembles a pie chart - each color corresponds to a certain quality - “Stupidity”, “Mind”, “knows C ++”, etc. In the future I will call it "karmagram."
Coloring.
A karmagram can be understood as a set of opinions expressed about a subject. An opinion is a tag, any word, or a combination of several words that the user considers characteristic of the subject. An opinion can be “simple” - to describe something concrete, and “complex”, which means a certain set of simple opinions, without breaking it down into its components. This division is of course arbitrary, any opinion is both simple and complex. Complex opinions will arise where it is difficult for the user to visualize the subject, but the opinion has developed (“Like”), simple where associatively a certain image immediately arises (“PHP expert”). In an ideal karmagram, the number of “simple” opinions tend to infinity, and the number of “complex” ones to zero.
Prisms
A person perceives pie charts with the number of colors no more than 2-3-4. A set of colors of karmagram can significantly exceed this value.
By grouping or filtering out the character, the prism allows you to see only important qualities and evaluate them instantly. Prisms can be easily changed and new ones created. Prisms allow you to look at an object from a different angle, it is they that make karmagram useful and usable.
With the introduction of prisms, the essence of karmograms should be determined before - by decomposing the subject into the maximum number of simple characteristics, we always have the opportunity to collect them in 2–3–4 properties, the assessment of which is most effective within a separate task.
Whom the idea of chart ranking interested, but little information seemed, can look into thistopic, there are more thoughts on a multidimensional assessment.
Now about the project.
The idea is to provide a “widget” (not sure about the definition) - a tool that can be easily integrated into any web project that allows you to rank users and content in a diagrammatic way. Tobish, each object will receive a karmogrammka and each user of this network will be able to colorize it. Prisms and other, not yet invented, tools for working with karmagrams will also be available.
The widget integrates traditionally - through javascript and a server-side interface class, both libraries have a documented API.
Why widget?
- The diagrammed “karmograph” is rather a complex mechanism than a simple one. It seems to me that it is closer to search engines, many questions of calculating and issuing karmagrams are not unambiguous, the search for the optimal solution is rather a constant process than a one-time action + the presence of peripheral functionality, without which there is nowhere (prisms, etc.). The ability to replicate a karmograph with a logically complete module to a certain CMS or library is in doubt.
- Let's imagine a little - creating a search engine using the “sociometric” data (karmagrams) of objects registered in the system, which are users and the content marked by karmagrams of all networks that installed the widget.
Platform - Google App Engine.
Accordingly, Python (Django), and GWT under the client side.
Open source
Yes, the project is open. All code that can be opened will be open. Everyone who wants to actively participate in the development of the project has this opportunity, starting work on one of the tasks. All active participants receive a portion of the profits from the monetization of the project.
Monetization.
There are many opportunities. I do not want to focus on this issue now.
Are social networks interested in using chart ranking and installing this widget?
More likely Yes, or rather No, what do you think?
By "interested" we understand that the functioning of the network (from its personal point of view) when using the widget will become more efficient. The conditions for installing the widget have not yet been determined. I don’t exclude the option of showing the ad unit as part of the widget, i.e. web-project, if you want, can twist and get some kind of reward for advertising, perhaps this will be an additional incentive for the implementation of chart ranking.
The initiative group is for those who want, and if the idea withstands the brainstorming.
Those who want to open a project can write me in a personal email (or at the contacts indicated in the profile), I promise to introduce us all to each other (the meeting can be arranged on Skype), decide who is involved, in what role, and say Let's go! )
UPD: I ask you not to consider the pie chart as the cornerstone, this is just a way to understand the idea of using a multidimensional estimate in an understandable language - but what they will eventually use is a secondary question, perhaps not only in circles, but also in rectangles, cones, or bagels.
A chart ranking method.
In contrast to the usual ranking methods based on reducing all qualities into one and presenting them as a number (Karma is a good example), the essence of karmagram is in listing all the qualities inherent in the subject, evaluating each of them individually, and conveniently representing the resulting multidimensional pictures.
As we see, the picture strongly resembles a pie chart - each color corresponds to a certain quality - “Stupidity”, “Mind”, “knows C ++”, etc. In the future I will call it "karmagram."
Coloring.
A karmagram can be understood as a set of opinions expressed about a subject. An opinion is a tag, any word, or a combination of several words that the user considers characteristic of the subject. An opinion can be “simple” - to describe something concrete, and “complex”, which means a certain set of simple opinions, without breaking it down into its components. This division is of course arbitrary, any opinion is both simple and complex. Complex opinions will arise where it is difficult for the user to visualize the subject, but the opinion has developed (“Like”), simple where associatively a certain image immediately arises (“PHP expert”). In an ideal karmagram, the number of “simple” opinions tend to infinity, and the number of “complex” ones to zero.
Prisms
A person perceives pie charts with the number of colors no more than 2-3-4. A set of colors of karmagram can significantly exceed this value.
By grouping or filtering out the character, the prism allows you to see only important qualities and evaluate them instantly. Prisms can be easily changed and new ones created. Prisms allow you to look at an object from a different angle, it is they that make karmagram useful and usable.
With the introduction of prisms, the essence of karmograms should be determined before - by decomposing the subject into the maximum number of simple characteristics, we always have the opportunity to collect them in 2–3–4 properties, the assessment of which is most effective within a separate task.
Whom the idea of chart ranking interested, but little information seemed, can look into thistopic, there are more thoughts on a multidimensional assessment.
Now about the project.
The idea is to provide a “widget” (not sure about the definition) - a tool that can be easily integrated into any web project that allows you to rank users and content in a diagrammatic way. Tobish, each object will receive a karmogrammka and each user of this network will be able to colorize it. Prisms and other, not yet invented, tools for working with karmagrams will also be available.
The widget integrates traditionally - through javascript and a server-side interface class, both libraries have a documented API.
Why widget?
- The diagrammed “karmograph” is rather a complex mechanism than a simple one. It seems to me that it is closer to search engines, many questions of calculating and issuing karmagrams are not unambiguous, the search for the optimal solution is rather a constant process than a one-time action + the presence of peripheral functionality, without which there is nowhere (prisms, etc.). The ability to replicate a karmograph with a logically complete module to a certain CMS or library is in doubt.
- Let's imagine a little - creating a search engine using the “sociometric” data (karmagrams) of objects registered in the system, which are users and the content marked by karmagrams of all networks that installed the widget.
Platform - Google App Engine.
Accordingly, Python (Django), and GWT under the client side.
Open source
Yes, the project is open. All code that can be opened will be open. Everyone who wants to actively participate in the development of the project has this opportunity, starting work on one of the tasks. All active participants receive a portion of the profits from the monetization of the project.
Monetization.
There are many opportunities. I do not want to focus on this issue now.
Are social networks interested in using chart ranking and installing this widget?
More likely Yes, or rather No, what do you think?
By "interested" we understand that the functioning of the network (from its personal point of view) when using the widget will become more efficient. The conditions for installing the widget have not yet been determined. I don’t exclude the option of showing the ad unit as part of the widget, i.e. web-project, if you want, can twist and get some kind of reward for advertising, perhaps this will be an additional incentive for the implementation of chart ranking.
The initiative group is for those who want, and if the idea withstands the brainstorming.
Those who want to open a project can write me in a personal email (or at the contacts indicated in the profile), I promise to introduce us all to each other (the meeting can be arranged on Skype), decide who is involved, in what role, and say Let's go! )
UPD: I ask you not to consider the pie chart as the cornerstone, this is just a way to understand the idea of using a multidimensional estimate in an understandable language - but what they will eventually use is a secondary question, perhaps not only in circles, but also in rectangles, cones, or bagels.
