Another Detailed Example
In John D. Moyer’s excellent book Personal Intelligence, he describes the components of what makes up one’s “personal intelligence.”13 Part of this includes identifying information about personality, and he breaks this out into two sub-components:
- • Reading personality from faces
- • Knowing how to use introspection
Without going into great detail, let’s think about how you could use data manipulation to create attributes for these two items. What is the first thing you think of when you read the phrase “reading personality from faces”? You probably think of some basic emotions: happy, sad, angry, tired, or crazy, for instance.
It is possible to use facial recognition software to take images of people and define these simple emotions. Maybe that is enough to help you get started with this first item. Even using the most basic of emotions, you could potentially quantify them on...