Facebook has announced that researchers and academics will now be able to access its data analytics tool CrowdTangle to assist in their work. Source link
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Twitter recently announced that it will enlist academic research groups to help in its project on conversation health. The researchers will study the behavior of Twitter users to find ways to assess how healthy the discussions are and help rid the platform of racists and trolls. The social networking site continues to take steps to tamp
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I am shocked–shocked!–to find out that clickbait headlines are being used on the Internet. There’s an academic study. A trio of researchers from the University of Mississippi and the University of Oklahoma say they analyzed 1.67 million Facebook posts that had been posted by a total of 153 media organizations. As described in their article, “Diving
haalkab / Pixabay A security company has revealed that Amazon Key is not foolproof, but the online retail giant assured that the delivery system is safe. Amazon Key allows couriers access inside a house or apartment to drop off a package if the recipient isn’t around. After studying the Amazon Key system and conducting tests,
The outcome is the result of two powerful forces in the evolution of information retrieval: artificial intelligence — especially natural language processing — and crowdsourcing. Computer algorithms interpret the relationship between the words we type and the vast number of possible web pages based on the frequency of linguistic connections in the billions of texts
WordNet is a lexical database for the English language. It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short definitions and usage examples, and records a number of relations among these synonym sets or their members. Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin developed a method to incorporate information from WordNet into
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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. We all have the potential for perfection. It’s just that we don’t always find the right incentive. Or, at least, that’s what the two self-help books I’ve ever scanned told me. It may be, though, that
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With Amazon’s third annual Prime Day just days away, new research out today estimates that the program has grown by 35 percent in the past year. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) has been tracking Amazon Prime’s growth for the past couple of years, and its latest research estimates that there were 85 million Prime members
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