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Data Mining the Amazon |
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Angie Waller |
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2002 |
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In her artist book Data Mining the Amazon, which is represented by two large-scale prints in Database Imaginary, Angie Waller borrows the business tactics of ecommerce, collecting user profiles and shopping histories, known as data-mining, to map and graph the filtered database of the online bookstore Amazon.com. Using Amazon.com’s ‘recommendations’ feature, the artist has determined the literary and musical tastes of groups ranging from the far right to the far left of the political spectrum as well as other mappings of consumers. Employees of Microsoft listen to Nelly Furtado while readers of Margaret Thatcher’s biography tend towards opera.
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