Speaker |
Thore Graepel |
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Affiliation |
Microsoft Research Cambridge and Chair of Machine Learning, Department of Computer Science, UCL |
Date |
Friday, 15 November 2013 |
Time |
13:00-14:00 |
Location |
Zoom |
Link |
Malet Place Engineering 1.03 |
Event series |
Jump Trading/ELLIS CSML Seminar Series |
Abstract |
We show that easily accessible digital records of behavior, Facebook Likes, can be used to automatically and accurately predict a range of highly sensitive personal attributes including: sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political views, personality traits, intelligence, happiness, use of addictive substances, parental separation, age, and gender. The analysis presented is based on a dataset of over 58,000 volunteers who provided their Facebook Likes, detailed demographic profiles, and the results of several psychometric tests. The proposed model uses dimensionality reduction for preprocessing the Likes data, which are then entered into logistic/linear regression to predict individual psycho-demographic profiles from Likes. The model correctly discriminates between homosexual and heterosexual men in 88% of cases, African Americans and Caucasian Americans in 95% of cases, and between Democrat and Republican in 85% of cases. For the personality trait "Openness," prediction accuracy is close to the test-retest accuracy of a standard personality test. We give examples of associations between attributes and Likes and discuss implications for online personalization and privacy. This is joint work with Michal Kosinski and David Stillwell at the University of Cambridge and is based on a PNAS paper of the same title. Slides for the talk: PDF |
Biography |