1. INFO 202 “Information Organization & Retrieval” Fall 2016
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION
INFO 202 “Information Organization & Retrieval” Fall 2016
28 November 2016
Case Study Presentations

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5. Difference Engine at the Computer History Museum

7. Organizing Indian wedding guest list

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11. Sophie Park

13. Organizing for Radical Business Simplification
Simplification Principles:
1. Understand the business (Entire R&D Value Chain)
2. Develop Organizing Principles (Design questions, Categorization/Classification, etc)
4. Implement Simplification (Quick Wins, Sprint, Simplification)
3. Analyze Business Processes (Trial Design, Trial Execution, Trial Maintenance, etc)
Example:

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18. Yad Vashem: Multi-Source Uncertain Entity Resolution (also known as entity matching, record linkage, and deduplication)
How do we recover this story?
Sobibor death camp records: Hoffman E., May 1943
Erika Hoffmann was born in Vienna in 1931.  In May 1943, she was deported from Holland to the Sobibor death camp, where she was murdered.
Erika, 1940, Vienna
A Testimony Page on Erika Hoffman killed in Sobibor, Poland, in 1943
Solution:
Soft (fuzzy) clustering (MFIBlocks)
Ranked list of results (flexible certainty search for user)
Album of Erika H. Records from Austria and Holland,

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20. Lending Institutions “Merry Go Rounds” and Table Banking P2P Lending
What
Why
How much
When
How and by whom
Where
Lending Institutions
“Merry Go Rounds” and Table Banking
P2P Lending
Credit Unions/Coops
Telecoms
Microfinance Institutions
Traditional Banks
Structure Formality
Resources: People-behavior, social, psychometric
Interactions: Credit Scoring
Impact Evaluation
Scope and precision dependent on level of formality
Continuously and as new data becomes available
Computational processes
Cognitively
In the cloud and other systems
In social constructs
“Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh;”
Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, n.d. N. Act 4 Scene 1
More
Structure
Greater
Formality

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