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USA Today features “Senti-meter”

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Jackson DeMos

USA Today featured the success of the “Senti-meter,” a project that relies on new sophisticated analytics and natural language recognition technologies to gauge positive and negative opinions shared in millions of public tweets. The Senti-meter is a joint project among … Continue reading →

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IBM program director praises Annenberg’s Film Forcaster

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Amelia Brodka

The Film Forcaster, a Twitter box office predictor developed in the Annenberg Innovation Lab, was mentioned by David Barnes, IBM’s program director of emerging Internet technologies, in an Oct. 18 ZDNet article titled “IBM discusses bringing big data applications to business.” The … Continue reading →

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Innovation Lab analyzes World Series tweets using IBM technology

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Jessica Zech

The U.S. News & World Report featured the Annenberg Innovation Lab for using IBM social media technology to determine which World Series players are fan favorites. The social media tool analyzes the number of tweets with positive or negative sentiment that mention … Continue reading →

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Innovation Lab project predicts films’ success

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Jessica Zech

A USC Annenberg Innovation Lab project was mentioned in a ZDnet article about a new analytics platform “concentrated on content-centric web apps with longer running data collection and analytics.” IBM created Project BigSheets, which is an ‘insight engine’ that provides … Continue reading →

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