The most important signals you can send to news discovery services: the feeds you follow. Your interest graph is largely the product of that dataset.
- Sean McBride
"Blockspring for Google Sheets lets you run over 1000 functions from your spreadsheets - create interactive data visualizations, run algorithms, pull data sources, execute db queries, automate tweets and emails, make API calls, and more."
- Sean McBride
"Linguamatics' latest Connected Data Technology uses an innovative federated text mining architecture, allowing information extraction from multiple data sources at once."
- Sean McBride
"Future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) is a term derived from a collective description given to the range of technology-oriented forecasting methods and practices by a group of futures researchers and practitioners. Future-oriented Technology analysis are concerned with complex dynamic systems and processes and engage multiple stakeholders in participatory and interdisciplinary processes to assure distributed understanding and sustainable development. Thus, there are variety of methods, and variety of possible classification criteria and the combined use of this extensive variety of methods in this research processes, and in which there are some important foresight methods such as `Scenario building', `Delphi' and `Roadmapping'. As one of important FTA methods, the practice of technology roadmapping (TRM) has received much attention from researchers and practitioners, to support planning and forecasting in companies and sectors. However, little research has focused on the intelligence analysis of the text content of TRM but a lot of research has focused on the optimization of TRM methods. The paper proposes a triple co-occurrence algorithm to build the future-oriented technology analysis thesaurus of technology roadmap based on text mining combining the method of scientometrics and natural language processing, which reveals the future-oriented technology development direction and level characteristics of special technical field and achieves preliminarily the target of future-oriented technology analysis of technology roadmap. The experiment shows that this method can support the FTA of technology roadmap to some extent."
- Sean McBride
"Have you ever wondered how Wolfram Alpha works? If so, you’re in for a treat.
Stephen Wolfram, the CEO of Wolfram Alpha, explains the algorithmic capabilities behind Wolfram Alpha. It is powered by massive data sets — so much that it cannot be simply retrieved from sources on the internet. Stephen Wolfram even states that “there actually isn’t enough data on the Web to get all of the things we need.”"
- Sean McBride
A psychological aspect is people lie to themselves about what they like, so the more "accurate" a news service is the more users dislike it.
- Todd Hoff
Most Internet startups across all genres fail. The more interesting question is, which personalized news startups have succeeded and why.
- Sean McBride