reincarnation app - prototype
DESCRIPTION
The application in a nutshell The Reincarnation App is a social web application that let users see who they were in previous lives. The prototype app is built for Facebook users only. We decided to work with the Facebook API as we are preliminary looking for users’ birthdates. Compared to other social network websites such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Last.Fm and Google+ we assumed that out of all these websites, Facebook profiles would hold and display most relevant data for our application. The key observation is that Facebook contains the birthdate data of most users, while some of the other social networks (such as Twitter) do not contain the birthdate of the user at all. Furthermore, user data on Facebook contains explicit information about user interests and characteristics in general. These pages of interest are structured in categories, which comes handy for user analysis and clustering. In social networks such as Twitter, the user orientation needs to be inferred from his posts and activities. Basically the users’ birthdate is the input death date in dbpedia. Via a SPARQL query we retrieve data of the person who died on the users birth date, because, according to our idea of past lives regression, only then reincarnation can take place. The application will in the end show predecessors’ name, birth date, birthplace, occupation, century s/he lived in, death date, and a link to more information about this person. We can trace this for several generations in a transitive manner. As long as DBpedia is able to provide linked data, we can keep going.TRANSCRIPT
The Reincarnation App
Filip Ilievski Sylvia van SchieWouter Stuifmeel
The Reincarnation App • A social web application to let you see who you were in previous lives • The Social Web • March 20th, 2014, VU University Amsterdam
GROUP
16
Introduction / ApproachTARGET Users of Facebook
GOAL Find the reincarnation chain of the user (all predecessors)
METHOD We hook up the user's date of birth to a person who deceased around the same date.
(margin up to three weeks)
VALUE The app is unique for it links data from Facebook to DBpedia and shows info about deceased people
It furthermore has a high entertainment value
The Reincarnation App • A social web application to let you see who you were in previous lives • The Social Web • March 20th, 2014, VU University Amsterdam
Data flow
The Reincarnation App • A social web application to let you see who you were in previous lives • The Social Web • March 20th, 2014, VU University Amsterdam
Data clustering
The Reincarnation App • A social web application to let you see who you were in previous lives • The Social Web • March 20th, 2014, VU University Amsterdam
Clustering is based on the 8 results we received whenentering the initial birth date of 20 March 2007.
User interface
The Reincarnation App • A social web application to let you see who you were in previous lives • The Social Web • March 20th, 2014, VU University Amsterdam