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Mashable's Velocity engine reaches 75% content prediction accuracy within five minutes

Haile Owusu · Forecasting Content with Mashable's Chief Data Scientist · Nov 23, 2015 · at 16:58

Haile Owusu, Chief Data Scientist at Mashable, presents performance metrics for Velocity, Mashable's proprietary engine for forecasting digital content virality.

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“We are able over within about five minutes to get about 75% accurate with Our predictions for overall sharing behavior with increasing accuracy over time.”

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Mashable's Velocity engine reaches approximately 75% accuracy within about five minutes when predicting overall content sharing behavior.

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