We may no longer need the humans, at least for data-driven stories.
Automated News Comes To Sports Coverage Via StatSheet - 0 views
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Every story on each site was written by a robot, or to put it more precisely, by StatSheet’s content algorithms. “The posts are completely auto-generated,” says founder Robbie Allen. “The only human involvement is with creating the algorithms that generate the posts.”
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It has about 20 different types of articles that it generates, from season previews to game recaps. StatSheet might analyze 10,000 data points and 4,000 possible phrases to generate a single story.
Heat, Drought Linked to Violence Worldwide - weather.com - 1 views
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Worldwide, shifts in climate are strongly linked to human violence, researchers concluded after examining quantitative studies from the past 25 on climate and various forms of violence.
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A global temperature rise of 2-degrees Celsius could increase the rate of intergroup conflicts, such as civil wars, by more than 50 percent in many parts of the world, the study's statistical analysis found.
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studies that find that heat waves lead to more violent crime in U.S. cities, for example, indicate that humans are poorly equipped to deal with exposure to hotter temperatures
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The Canadian Press: Researchers suggest tall soccer players are more likely to be calle... - 0 views
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"We found that on average the player who committed the foul is taller than the one who was the victim,"
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Humans throughout evolution needed to be more afraid of bigger animals because bigger animals usually have more potential to harm us,"
Media Companies Must Become Trusted Data Hubs » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Jo... - 0 views
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Advertising and journalism do not complement each other the way they used to.
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successful media companies of the future have to build an infrastructure that turns them into reliable data hubs, able to analyze even very large and complex datasets internally and to build stories on their insights
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machine can assemble large portions of articles through structured data
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