An Algorithm Knows Who Liked the How I Met Your Mother Finale - Adrienne LaFrance - The Atlantic - 0 views
-
The Canvs analysis covered about 185,000 tweets, just a portion of the half-a-million tweets that Canvs identified as being related to the finale. The platform only analyzes tweets it is sure it can interpret accurately, founder and CEO Jared Feldman told me. <div><a href="http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?iu=%2F4624%2FTheAtlanticOnline%2Fchannel_technology&t=src%3Dblog%26by%3Dadrienne-lafrance%26title%3Dan-algorithm-knows-who-liked-the-em-how-i-met-your-mother-em-finale%26pos%3Din-article&sz=300x185&c=72813788&tile=3" title=""><img src="http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?iu=%2F4624%2FTheAtlanticOnline%2Fchannel_technology&t=src%3Dblog%26by%3Dadrienne-lafrance%26title%3Dan-algorithm-knows-who-liked-the-em-how-i-met-your-mother-em-finale%26pos%3Din-article&sz=300x185&c=72813788&tile=3" alt="" /></a></div>
-
An algorithm might recognize the word "enjoy" in a tweet that says, I really didn't enjoy the How I Met Your Mother finale, without realizing that the tweet isn't ultimately positive. You can teach a computer to recognize the "didn't" before "enjoy," but that doesn't go far enough, either.
-
The way that 12-year-olds talk about loving Justin Bieber? There's no dictionary on the planet that captures that."
- ...4 more annotations...