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   by tansey 15y ago

   In the modern marketing world, this has been re-branded as inbound marketing .
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   by tansey 15y ago

   With 700 tweets already, it's probably getting massively DDoS'd.
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   by tansey 15y ago

   >HN is demonstrably pathological about pricing; 80% of the readers here assume they could build whatever you built in a weekend This is so true! For EffectCheck [1], when I see three segments of people: 1. People who refuse to believe
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   by tansey 15y ago

   > For example, can a post simultaneously score highly in "anxiety" and "confidence"? Aren't these opposites? Indeed they are opposites. People can hold many dual emotions simultaneously-- love and hate, belief and doubt, etc.
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   How Not to Deliver Bad News: Dropbox CTO Arash Ferdowsi(blog.effectcheck.com)

   4 points by tansey 15y ago|0 comments
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   by tansey 15y ago

   That's really cool! I have never seen that project before. I checked our colors compared to the results of the study: Anxiety: #2288ff vs. #595884 (anxious) Hostility: #ee0000 vs. #E0192C (angry) -- hostile only had 100 samples Depression:
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   by tansey 15y ago

   It hopefully tells you that we're happy to work with you if you'd like to use sentiment analysis or lexical impact analysis in your company. :) We are focused on B2B applications of our technology rather than the consumer/API side. However,
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   by tansey 15y ago

   Thanks. My co-founders [1][2] actually did spend a decent amount of time thinking about this. The emotions are first sorted into negative on the left and positive on the right. The order is for symmetry of left/right side words: - Anxiety i
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   by tansey 15y ago

   I did an overall analysis of the HN community from 2007-2011 a few weeks ago [1]. [1] http://blog.effectcheck.com/2011/05/31/do-social-news-sites-...
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    by tansey 15y ago

    Wow, how did this get discovered? I'm a co-founder at EffectCheck and I was working closely with Scott this weekend as he was building this. It wasn't really ready for viewing yet, but okay... :) Please note that the top graph is currently
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    Show HN: Interactive Evolution of Image-Producing Neural Networks(picbreeder.org)

    1 points by tansey 15y ago|0 comments
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    by tansey 15y ago

    Oh, I see. The rotation control is kind of strange. Rather than have it control the momentum of the spin, it would be more natural to have the left/right arrows first stop the automatic rotation, then simply rotate at fixed-size intervals.
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    by tansey 15y ago

    Very cool. I evolved a goblin face from the "honeycomb monster" on the front page. I wish you could play with the rotation manually rather than having to rely on the gif animation.
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    by tansey 15y ago

    Worth noting that the liquid is rechargeable/reusable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_batteries According to the Wikipedia page, the main issue with these batteries is low energy density. If this group has figured it out, they may be o
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    by tansey 15y ago

    I just tried the Excel version. Is there some reason that the line graphs are so ugly? The graphs in Excel 2007/2010 are beautiful, but the 365 graphs are filled with jaggies. See: http://i.imgur.com/KOHSI.png
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    by tansey 15y ago

    Seems naive to think they bought OKCupid just for the revenue. The OKCupid guys were awesome at data mining, visualization, and viral marketing. Their ability to enhance the value of Match.com's existing client base is huge.
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    by tansey 15y ago

    1) The emails are mostly English 2) They're primarily Visa approval/rejection notices 99% of the emails are boring, auto-send text, examples: EMAIL A ------ Dear frederic norbert didier Your visa request has received successfully. You appl
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    by tansey 15y ago

    You also have to account for the other services and facilities that YC provides. I believe pg has mentioned previously that the total cost per startup for YC is about $40k. That would be about a 16x return. Still pretty amazing.
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    by tansey 15y ago

    That was my other hypothesis, but it didn't really correlate well with the growth in the site's user base. HN has experienced an exponential growth rate, but your comments show a linear decline in negative impact. I went with the "better li
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    by tansey 15y ago

    >It's also possible that I'm missing the point by comparing how I think I feel against EffectCheck's results. Maybe we're unreliable observers of how a text emotionally affects us, and EffectCheck more accurately predicts what's really
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    by tansey 15y ago

    Sure. Here you go: Anxiety - High Hostility - High Depression - High Confidence - Medium Compassion - Very Low to Low Happiness - Low to Medium
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    by tansey 15y ago

    It's a good question, and I guess we'll see how well the correlation holds. It's worth noting that the stock market bottomed in March 2009, so this may be a lagging indicator.
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    by tansey 15y ago

    I did originally have a similar idea, where I started out by looking at the top 10% of comments each month (ranked by upvotes). However, the resulting trends looked pretty similar to the overall community: http://blog.effectcheck.com/top_d
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    by tansey 15y ago

    >Is there really much of interest in press releases, or were they just a handy corpus you had around? Actually, both. Corporate marketing departments spend a lot of effort crafting the proper press releases. Entire agencies exist to h
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    by tansey 15y ago

    > Also, as someone else said, where are the error bars? If there really is a correlation between word choice and other metrics, then some simple statistics should give you error bars on your other metrics, right? Please see my respons
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    by tansey 15y ago

    We are looking at a time-based analysis of the monthly means of PG and the HN community. The null hypothesis is that the slope of a regression line should be 0. Since we are dealing with a time-based analysis of the mean, the variance of ea
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    by tansey 15y ago

    Thanks! I'd be happy to analyze of corpora like reddit or Digg, but I don't want to scrape the sites as that is a great way to have my IP banned. Are there publicly-available datasets that I can download somewhere?
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    by tansey 15y ago

    ...surely in a domain-specific corpus such as HN comments you have to take domain, if not context, into account? That's a great insight and I believe you are correct. In general, I think the domain does have an impact and I am working on
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    by tansey 15y ago

    Hi everyone, So there seems to be a lot of skepticism about whether our algorithm can actually measure emotional impact accurately. For the long answer, I'll refer you to the about page[1] for EffectCheck. For the short answer: My co-founde
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    by tansey 15y ago

    >And with that, I throw down the gauntlet. Analyze this! Sure. Scored with EffectCheck: Anxiety - Very High Hostility - High Depression - Very High Confidence - Low Compassion - Low Happiness - Very Low I will post a longer explanatio