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Hemingway Style Writing Aid

Ernest Hemingway in Milan, 1918
Ernest Hemingway in Milan, 1918 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This writing aid is AWESOME… Finally, a writing coach with a brain…. AI at its best (and simplest)…  This writing support app shows you where to trim the fat and where to drop in those strong verbs. The algorithm for smart editing seems to be rather simple, probably a readability test with some maximum sentence length. Yet, is it is quite effective… Try it now online.

It forced me to replace the verbose academese in this paragraph:

The edited volume will gather seminal contributions that may set up guidelines or propose heuristic principles for activities related to the ethical issues involved in collecting, processing, analyzing, and disseminating results related to big data projects. The guidelines and principles will shape future research, the design of new practices, or will shape tool development. 

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The volume will gather seminal contributions related to ethical principles for big data research. It will shape future research and the design of new practices or tools.

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Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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