11.6. Design Activity

Come up with at least two different theoretical sets of rules (recommendation algorithms) for what would make a “good” social media post to recommend.

• Consider all the information you could get about a post, both from the social media API, and also information the social media company has internally. For example:

  • post engagement

  • Information about the user

  • Information about the topic (that we can try to guess)

  • Other data mining strategies (like Sentiment Analysis)

• Compare your two different strategies, and think about how users might try to behave in order to game the algorithm