I would like to say a few words about an upcoming major event for all of those interested in Text Analytics and its various uses in Social Media, Marketing and Business Intelligence. Starting on May 18th, the annual Text Analytics summit (the only conference dedicated completely to Text Mining) will take place in Boston, MA with a total of …See More

A UK-based MSc student of Kingston Business School - Christos Gkemitzis had an idea for his MSc project which immediately caught my attention : Use Text Analytics methods to annual reports given by Banks and extract metrics on how these Banks handle their Credit and Interest rate risk as explained in these reports and then test several hypotheses ( do Banks of a higher risk profile disclose bigger amount of risk-related information compared to those having lower risk profile?) and also identify…See More

For those that haven't heard of Kaggle before, Kaggle is a team of people that provide the functionality and support to host Data Mining contests. Here is how it works : Suppose that you are working for a Telco and wish to implement a new Churn prediction model. Rather than running this project in-house, you submit your data to Kaggle. What happens next is that -hopefully- many statisticians globally will each…See More

In the past couple of months i was looking for a way to best capture and understand what happens on the Web -and more specifically what people write in blogs- in terms of sentiment and emerging trends. The first thing that i came up with was the the idea of creating a "Web Pulse" Report : A way to summarize what people are discussing on the web. Although the implementation was not as complex as i expected, i was pleased to find that the knowledge that can be extracted is -to say the least- very…See More

Over the past month i had the opportunity to combine different techniques to identify trends and patterns regarding the economic situation in Greece as seen from a Web perspective. The collection was made from different sources : Blogs, forums and various websites.The situation in Greece is more or less known to many people. The country is in a bad economic shape and this has consequences in Society in a number of ways. Unstructured text information was collected and used to identify trends…See More