Buzzfeed Wants to Use Facebook for Political Polling: What Could Go Wrong?

Buzzfeed Wants to Use Facebook for Political Polling: What Could Go Wrong?

May require another article that gives some more info about sentiment analysis.

Big-Data Project on 1918 Flu Reflects Key Role of Humanists

Big-Data Project on 1918 Flu Reflects Key Role of Humanists

Reasons I like article:

•  lots of use of the term "algorithm"
• collaboration between humanities and computer science

For discussion:

• benefits of being a CSist with humanist skills and/or humanist with CS skills
• effect on collaboration?
• how messy the data is 

Google searches mined to uncover our true opinions

Google searches mined to uncover our true opinions 

Interesting discussion possibilities about the methodology and the conclusions drawn.

Mining Books to Map Emotions through a Century

Mining Books To Map Emotions Through A Century

• Ask questions about the importance of the context of the words

Google's n-grams

Digitized book project unveils a quantitative "cultural genome"

While I don't usually like to use press releases, this one is better than the other articles I found about the project.

Why I like this article:

• a concrete article of something a CS1 student could write (processing text file, counting the number of words, using lists/dictionaries) on a small scale
• a surprising application of computer science
• discussion question: does adding computing take the "art" out of humanities?