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Velocity prediction engine sources the overwhelming majority of Mashable's top content

Haile Owusu · Forecasting Content with Mashable's Chief Data Scientist · Nov 23, 2015 · at 22:52

Haile Owusu, Chief Data Scientist at Mashable, explains how Mashable's editorial team uses the Velocity engine as a sourcing and curation tool to spot viral stories.

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“And we actually find that the top end of our content, those stories that are viewed very widely and shared very, very widely, the overwhelming majority of those are sourced from Velocity by our editorial staff.”

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The overwhelming majority of Mashable's top-performing and widely shared content is sourced from its Velocity prediction engine by its editorial staff.

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