Everything about User profile
Data about an individual user
A user profile is a collection of settings and information associated with a user. It contains critical information that is used to identify the person it’s about, such as their name, age, portrait photograph and individual characteristics such as knowledge or expertise. The amount and criticality of the information featured on one largely depends on the needs of the platform it’s on. Social networking sites like LinkedIn require more details about the person, while other sites like YouTube and X are more social media and don’t need as much critical information. User profiles are most commonly present on social media websites such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and serve as a voluntary digital identity of an individual, highlighting their key features and traits. In personal computing and operating systems, user profiles serve to categorise files, settings, and documents by individual user environments, known as 'accounts', allowing the operating system to be more friendly and catered to the user. Physical user profiles serve as identity documents such as passports, driving licenses and legal documents that are used to identify an individual under the legal system. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: User profileA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Risk factors and disease profile of post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK users of the COVID Symptom Study app: a prospective, community-based, nested, case-control studyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: PROFILEThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Company profile of the frequent internet userCited 90 times
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Company profile of the frequent internet user
Community-aware user profile enrichment in folksonomy
Ontology-based user profile learning
An information retrieval system based on a user profile
Emergency Contraception: The User Profile
Privacy-Preserving User Profile Matching in Social Networks
Contextual preference mining for user profile construction
Personalised Advertising — Exploiting the Distributed User Profile
🆕 Influential since 2022
Risk factors and disease profile of post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK users of the COVID Symptom Study app: a prospective, community-based, nested, case-control study
Recommendation of Healthcare Services Based on an Embedded User Profile Model
A global user profile framework for effective recommender systems
Unsupervised contaminated user profile identification against shilling attack in recommender system
User-designed device with programmable release profile for localized treatment
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕PROFILELeslie Collins · 1997
- 📕User's guide for monthly vector wind profile modelStanley I. Adelfang · 1999
- 📕Tracking and targeting customers and prospects online, on mobile devices, and in social media 2013D. Reed Freeman · 2013
- 📕Tracking and targeting customers and prospects online, on mobile devices, and in social media 2012D. Reed Freeman · 2012
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