If I had my own Google to play around with – I´d spend the ad revenue on open research answering questions like who we are, how culture is created and how our minds work using data mining at the intersection of psychology and linguistics. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin proposed a fusion between the naturalistic evolutionary perspective … Read more
Data-Driven Humanism – or, if I had my own Google to play around with
December 5th, 2011 | Posted by in Personal | Practical | Systemic | Turquoise - (0 Comments)A way to make sentiment analysis work
December 2nd, 2011 | Posted by in Practical | Systemic | Yellow - (2 Comments)Just like words have different meanings depending on context, the positive or negative charge of an expression depends on the belief system of the audience. The Swedish company Gavagai, the birth place of and more famous Recorded Future that was recently funded by Google and CIA, have a simple and elegant solution to the problem of … Read more
The Future of Facebook: psychographic text analysis
October 27th, 2011 | Posted by in Systemic | Yellow - (0 Comments)If you are a CTO you won´t get fired for buying IBM. Or at least that´s how it used to be. Today, if you are a head of marketing for a big firm you won´t get fired for buying demographically targeted ads. Especially when they are spiced with some psychographic variables such as self-reported interests. … Read more

