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Market Prophit Empowers Investors with First-of-its-Kind Financial …

Xignite Market Data Cloud Integral to Social Media Investment
Performance Measurement Service

Xignite,
Inc., the leading provider of market
data cloud solutions, today announced that Market
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Beware of Sentiment Pies – Just Drive Media

Social Media AnalysisPosted by John WinkleOne of the most valuable insights gained from social listening is sentiment surrounding your brand.  What do people like about your products and services?  What ticks them off?  What do they not care about?  Where is sentiment about your brand headed?  What do these same people think about your competitors?Accurate analysis can provide a wealth […]

Seeking Alpha Crowd Wisdom Predicts Future Stock Returns …

SummaryA recent academic study, highlighted in today’s WSJ, validates that crowd-sourced research is predictive of future stock prices.
SA articles and comments were predictive of future stock prices and earnings surprises over all time-frames studied, from one month to three years.
Traditional media, sell-side research, and […]

Making Sense of Big Data in Search Marketing – Search Engine Watch

To make marketing data work, you need to be able to measure and understand performance against a standard set of metrics. The challenge lies in marrying data from web analytics with search and social signals, and then being able to tie that to business value (for example, the correlation of search rankings with visits and conversions).Did you know the average […]

Automatic Sentiment Analysis in Social Media Monitoring

LinkedIn0Google+0Facebook0Sentiment Analysis (also known as opinion mining) refers to the use of natural language processing, text analysis and computational linguistics to identify and extract subjective information in source materials. – Wikipedia.orgThere are two models widely used in automatic sentiment analysis.Linguistic ResourcesThe model most frequently used in commercial applications is based on linguistic resources and the other is based on machine […]

Gracenote's Rhythm Adds Filesharing Data and Social Media …

Gracenote continues to build its Rhythm platform for music streaming services with the addition of global fan data from Musicmetric. Earlier this year Gracenote announced a social media and trending data agreement with Next Big Sound for Rhythm. Now they’re adding filesharing data and social media sentiment via Musicmetric, who will also be considering other customized data options Rhythm.Gracenote Rhythm […]

Crowdsourced investor sentiment – News & Commentary

US Companies with good social media sentiment have seen their shares outperform the rest of the market by 56% in the 23 months leading up to last November
The inverse holds true for companies which are subject to negative sentiment
As with anything in the social media world, the universe of shares subject to positive and negative sentiment varies rapidlyIn highlighting which […]

The FDA Sets Its Sights on Social Media | HIStalk Connect

The Food and Drug Administration is soliciting bids for a contractor that will monitor social media and map out the peaks and troughs of drug and medical device risk-based chatter. The FDA is targeting blogs, forums, message boards, wikis, and podcasts as potential new opportunities to engage the public.The focus of the project will be to help the FDA evaluate […]

March-June Analytics, Big Data and Data Science Meetings

Coming soon: PAW San Francisco, GigaOM Structure, Predictive Analytics/Big Data Innovation Summits, Big Data Techcon, INFORMS Boston, SPB 14, SDM 14, PASS Business Analytics, PAKDD 2014, and many more.
By Gregory Piatetsky, Mar 4, 2014.
Here are upcoming 45 March – June 2014 meetings and conferences.
You can find the full list on KDnuggets page:

Meetings / Conferences on Analytics, […]

Ukraine Crisis: RTS Russia Stock Market What's Next? :: The Market …

Ukraine Crisis: RTS Russia Stock Market What’s Next?Stock-Markets / RussiaMar 04, 2014 – 06:37 PM GMTBy: EWI

Social mood is another term for the shared inclination of a society. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is a dramatic example of social mood in action. Editor’s note: You’ll find a text version of this article below the video.

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