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Mashable content predictions compare favorably to Facebook despite lacking granular graph data

Haile Owusu · Forecasting Content with Mashable's Chief Data Scientist · Nov 23, 2015 · at 17:10

Haile Owusu, Chief Data Scientist at Mashable, compares the accuracy of Mashable's Velocity prediction engine to benchmark results published by Facebook researchers.

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“And these results actually compare favorably with the results found by folks at Facebook, for example, who actually have all of the granular information that we don't have about the actual graph structure on which these cascades happen.”

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Mashable's Velocity content sharing prediction results compare favorably with prediction results achieved by Facebook, despite Mashable lacking granular graph structure data.

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Mashable content predictions compare favorably to Facebook despite lacking granular graph data

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