A recently published article called “Data mining for predictive social network analysis” caught our attention at Vijilent. First of all, because it analyzes Brazilian election results (two of our team members are from and currently living in Brazil). Secondly, it’s especially close to our hearts because it describes how to use social media to make predictions. Data Scientists and Twitter Twitter is a treasure chest for the data scientist on our team. What we, average people,

Sentiment analysis on social network data A few months ago, three hedge funds used artificial intelligence technology to predict the outcome of the UK vote on Brexit. And benefited greatly from it. The technologies and polling helped generate profits and minimized losses for the firms. Brevan Howard Asset Management used AI technology to measure sentiment on social media and conducted a poll prior to the referendum. Discovery Capital Management developed a model using algorit

We're really excited to be launching our Data-Portraits® today! So let me introduce to you our hard work of this summer. What is a Data-Portrait®? A Data-Portrait® is a digital profile based on the social media data of an individual. We gather publicly available data from thousands of sites. The data is brought together and processed. In addition, we evaluate the data using natural language processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis. From these insights, four product offerings