Sunday, October 06, 2013

Are you a geek or a nerd? Scientist creates graph that explains the difference - and tells you where YOU are on the scale

Are you a geek or a nerd? Scientist creates graph that explains the difference - and tells you where YOU are on the scale | Mail Online: "
-Software engineer Burr Settles studied the words used in 2.6 million tweets
-He also sampled tweets that matched the query terms 'geek' and 'nerd'
-By comparing tweets in each query Settles devised an equation to discover the words most used by geeks and nerds
-These words were plotted on a chart along a geeky and nerdy scale"

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