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Tagging Systems and Their Effect on Resource Popularity. Austin Wester. Background & Related Work. Background & Related Work. Tag Purposes Social bookmarking Personal bookmarks Store and retrieve resources Social tagging systems Shared tags for particular resources
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Tagging Systems and Their Effect on Resource Popularity Austin Wester
Background & Related Work • Tag Purposes • Social bookmarking • Personal bookmarks • Store and retrieve resources • Social tagging systems • Shared tags for particular resources • Each tag is a link to additional resources tagged the same way by other users
Background & Related Work • Taxonomy of Tagging Systems • System design and attributes • How the characteristics of a tagging system effects the content, the tags and the usage • Users • How their incentives and motivations affect the tagging system
Gathering the Information • Visual Studio .Net 2005 • Flickr API • Write a program to query Flickr.com • Challenges • Allowed just under 1 query/second (55/min) • Gives 72000 images/day or 2.1 million in a month
Converting Information • Write script to separate data into multiple bipartite networks in Pajek format
Converting Data • Image/tags by a few different categories • Separating into categories will be more accurate • Possibly separate categories into popular, neutral and unpopular • Image/Comments • Owners/Images • Owners/Comments • This will give me many bipartite graphs to perform several different studies
Analyzing The Data • New images will naturally have low number of views and will probably be removed from the study • Flickr has a ‘Most Interesting’ section. I believe these are new images that are receiving a larger number of views than most • These can be analyzed to see if they have tags or not and if they have an affect on the number of views an image is receiving.
Analyzing The Data • Use Pajek, VS .net 2005
Analyzing The Data • Find Degree, Betweenness and Centrality • Of Images for each network • How many tags an image has • Of Tags for each network • Will tell which tags are used most often • Of Owners for each network • Tell how connected they are • Does this make a difference
Analyzing The Data • Find Coefficiency • Image/Tags: see if images with a higher coefficiency are more popular • Image/Comments: see if images that are commented on more are more popular • And so on
Analyzing The Data • Convert bipartite graphs into 1-mode
Analyzing The Data • An image’s metadata contains number of views and number of favorites • The image’s popularity will be categorized based on a simple calculation. The number of favorites/number of views. • Popular is the top 33% or > 66% • Neutral is > 33% and < 67% • Unpopular is <= 33%
Questions To Be Answered • Owner to Images • Broken down by owner popularity • See if users of high ranking has more popular images than users with low ranking
Questions To Be Answered • Owners to comments • See if the number of comments left by users on an owners profile is related to their popularity • If so then check to see if the popularity of the users who left comments plays a role.
Questions To Be Answered • Owners to tags • Find out if there is any relation in a user’s popularity based on the tags for their galleries • Will do similar test and comparisons as before
Questions To Be Answered • Owners to Owners • Does a user’s friend’s popularity affect their popularity? • Try to compare those with mostly popular friends to those with mostly unpopular (mostly non-active) friends
Questions To Be Answered • Images to comments • Similar to Owners to comments • Do the comments left play a role in the image’s popularity? • Again, if it does then does the popularity of the users leaving the comments play a role?
Questions To Be Answered • Images to most interesting • New images with a high number of views • Do they have tags or comments
Questions To Be Answered • Images to tags • Find out if certain tags increase popularity for a particular category • See if the number of tags create a change • Find what set of distinct repeating tags emerge from a large set of popular images • Do the same for Neutral and Unpopular images • Compare to see if the same tags exist in more than one popularity set • Will give a fairly accurate indication of weather tags are related to an image’s popularity
Conclusion • Gathering image data on Flickr.com • Examining multiple relationships among images and image owners to see if there are any relationships • Images/Tags • Owners/Images • Other relations