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News Entropy
- whatshisface 5y agoI guess this is rigorous confirmation of the slow news day = talk about anything, crisis = talk about Michael Jackson's death for six months model of news broadcasting.
- webmaven 5y ago> I guess this is rigorous confirmation of the slow news day = talk about anything, crisis = talk about Michael Jackson's death for six months model of news broadcasting. Well, yes, but it is also implying "slow news is good news".
- crsn 5y agoI’m working on a commercial side project along these lines — if anyone is interested in helping or collaborating, shoot me an email!
- gtt 5y agoWhen I've tried to predict social unrest or market volatility from the news, I've found, than news actually trailing important events and are useless for any sorts of prediction.
- webmaven 5y ago> When I've tried to predict social unrest or market volatility from the news, I've found, than news actually trailing important events and are useless for any sorts of prediction. It might be useful though to be able to distinguish actual social unrest from the astroturf variety.
- crsn 5y agoLuckily, that’s not my application area if these ideas right now. :) But it might indeed fail for some of the same structural regularities!
- qorrect 5y agoI was a bit bummed I thought this would be more inline with Shannons entropy, or a measure of how much an article reveals about the topic.