Tapping on 'The Beating Heart of Kim Kardashian
That was the title of my first Data Science DC Meetup. Mike Dewar, from bitly, presented his work on tracking attention. The background hypothesis is that attention leads to revenue, and he wants to measure attention at any given time by means of click rates. With bitly he has access to all clicks on shortened links. The problem is then to transform that stream of single events into an attention function estimate in real time. ...