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I´ve been fascinated by the idea of using philosopher Ken Wilber‘s Integral model as a basis for psychographic text analysis for some years. I started out by reading his material and a couple of years ago I started working on text analysis models. The Integral model put together by Ken Wilber is often referred to … Read more

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

When I started out with psychographic text analysis a few years ago sentiment analysis was the craze. If I told anyone about the idea to analyze the psychological traits of someone online most (action oriented) people directly asked me about if I could do sentiment analysis. Some people still do. The thing is that I´m … Read more

Silent Movie by Richard Gatarski Psychographic text analysis is about finding linguistic signal patterns to try to determine the psychological profile of the author of a text. Today (Update: this english version cerated 13th sep) version at Sweden Social Web Camp I presented a small demo of my integral model for determining sentiment (mood), values … Read more

A tweet by Bobby Bear has gotten retweeted and Bubba Bear has been wondering if there is some pattern behind what tweets get retweeted. That leads them to psychologists and text analysts such as James W Pennebaker and social media scientists such as Dan Zarella. They even mention yours truly! Trailer: Watch the full movie … Read more

I believe that it is possible to predict people’s interests by looking at their written language. This can be done by identifying a few psychological traits that shine through in personal relaxed texts such as Tweets or blogs. To accomplish this, we need large amounts of data on each individual and large amounts of individuals … Read more