Rahul gives unsolicited advice

I removed a lot of personal information from Facebook on Friday night and I ended up with a small box on the left hand side of my Wall, asking me for personal information, prodding me to complete my profile. One of those questions were on where I went to college. The options I saw were a list of colleges friends of mine went to. What I found interesting was the last option that read "I didn't go to university." Why is this option Private by default? I wonder why Facebook chose to make it Private if someone didn't go to university. Is it because of the usual stigma associated with not being a college graduate? Just wanted to point it out.

So, I removed most personal information from Facebook and I ended up with a box on my Wall asking me to fill in some information. One of the questions is about where I worked at in the past. The options Facebook gave me are : The options Facebook gave surprised me, to say the least. The reason I am surprised at these options is because of how they differ from options I got for other questions. For example, the options I got for the question of where I live currently was a list of places my friends currently live in. Similarly, the options I got for the question of where I studied was a list of colleges my friends studied at. The only company on this list that my friends work at is Ather, as is evidenced. I cannot recall a single person in my Facebook friend circle who works at either TCS or Cognizant or at HCL. Why Facebook decided to add those items to the list will remain a mystery.

Because I have nothing better to do on a Friday night, I downloaded whatever data that Facebook had on me, which you can as well by going to this part of Facebook  and clicking on the "Download a copy of your Facebook data". It might take a couple of minutes but you'll finally get a zipped file, one that will contain a "wall.htm" file inside of it. The contents of this "wall.htm" file is what I'll constrain myself to at this moment. Here's a small part of the file to give you an idea of the kind of information available in this file. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 <p> <div class= "meta" > Monday, January 11, 2016 at 1:13am UTC+05:30 </div> Rahul Poruri shared Lunarbaboon &#039; s photo. </p> <p> <div class= "meta" > Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 6:32pm UTC+05:30 </div> Rahul Poruri shared a link. </p> As you can see above, there between th...

I've wanted to learn methods to Extract and Visualize data and i've come up with 3 projects that i could use to learn these methods! I've been working on them for a couple of months now, doing background work to remove all of the trivial problems! Mining my blog, Mining Facebook Data and Mining my bookmarks - these are the three projects i have in mind and i need help with. Mining my blog If you guys don't know, i have another blog which automatically posts videos i add to my Youtube Favorites list - using IFTTT . I've been using this service for over an year now and i have ~600 posts - all of them videos on my blog. Now, i want to mine the blog to look at the frequency with which i watch youtube videos, maybe see a pattern which i can correlate to my college exam schedule! While looking for ways to mine the blog, i found out that i can download my blog as an xml file! So, getting the data part is taken care of. Here's the xml file. Download it and op...