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I have been asked by my superiors to give a brief demonstration of the surprising effectiveness of even the simplest techniques of the new-fangled Social Networke Analysis in the pursuit of those who would seek to undermine the liberty enjoyed by His Majestys subjects. This is in connection with the discussion of the role of metadata in certain recent events and the assurances of various respectable parties that the government was merely sifting through this so-called metadata and that the information acquired does not include the content of any communications. I will show how we can use this metadata to find key persons involved in terrorist groups operating within the Colonies at the present time. I shall also endeavour to show how these methods work in what might be called a relational manner.
The analysis in this report is based on information gathered by our field agent Mr David Hackett Fischer and published in an Appendix to his lengthy report to the government. As you may be aware, Mr Fischer is an expert and respected field Agent with a broad and deep knowledge of the colonies. I, on the other hand, have made my way from Ireland with just a little quantitative trainingI placed several hundred rungs below the Senior Wrangler during my time at Cambridgeand I am presently employed as a junior analytical scribe at ye olde National Security Administration. Sorry, I mean the Royal Security Administration. And I should emphasize again that I know nothing of current affairs in the colonies. However, our current Eighteenth Century beta of PRISM has been used to collect and analyze information on more than two hundred and sixty persons (of varying degrees of suspicion) belonging variously to seven different organizations in the Boston area.
Rest assured that we only collected metadata on these people, and no actual conversations were recorded or meetings transcribed. All I know is whether someone was a member of an organization or not. Surely this is but a small encroachment on the freedom of the Crowns subjects. I have been asked, on the basis of this poor information, to present some names for our field agents in the Colonies to work with. It seems an unlikely task.
Paul Revere is only remembered because his name rhymed with "hear".
As opposed to the other guys whose rides were more useful, but they didn't have names that rhymed that good.
Paul Revere is only remembered because his name rhymed with "hear".
As opposed to the other guys whose rides were more useful, but they didn't have names that rhymed that good.
Paul Revere is only remembered because his name rhymed with "hear".
As opposed to the other guys whose rides were more useful, but they didn't have names that rhymed that good.
He is also remembered as a silversmith, but only someone who didn't sleep through history would know that.
Paul Revere is only remembered because his name rhymed with "hear".
As opposed to the other guys whose rides were more useful, but they didn't have names that rhymed that good.
Paul Revere is only remembered because his name rhymed with "hear".
As opposed to the other guys whose rides were more useful, but they didn't have names that rhymed that good.
Shut up JoeBlow. Hey! That rhymed!
Paul Revere is only remembered because his name rhymed with "hear".
As opposed to the other guys whose rides were more useful, but they didn't have names that rhymed that good.
He is also remembered as a silversmith, but only someone who didn't sleep through history would know that.
I knew that. It just wasn't that important.
How many other Silversmiths from 1775 can you name. We'll wait.
The ONLY reason why we remember Revere today is because Longfellow wrote that poem about him.
And the only reason he got into the poem is that "Revere" was more Ryhmable than "Prescott" or "Dawes", the other guys in on the gag.
