Coding the Sentiment of Web 2.0

Kevin Randall at FastCompany pens an interesting piece on the rising tide of sentiment analysis–the players, the technologies, the possibilities, and the current pitfalls.  The idea behind sentiment analysis is pretty simple (but the execution is difficult): to identify and code attitudes, whether written or verbal, towards particular topics.  The explosion of activity on the [...]

Crowdsourcing Data Coding

I just finished watching the video below of CrowdFlower’s presentation at the TechCrunch50 conference.  CrowdFlower is a plaform that allows firms to crowdsource various tasks, such as populating a spreadsheet with email addresses or selecting stills from thousands of videos that have particular qualities.  The examples in the video include very labor intensive tasks, but [...]

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