The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

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why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Assertion Supported
Stent: No generic text analytics platform can handle financial language
“There is no on the market generic text analytics platform that can handle this type of language. No way.”
Amanda Stent Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 6:51 Text Analytics for Finance // Amanda Stent, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Partly supported
Generic NLP mistakenly linked Bill O'Reilly news to O'Reilly Auto Parts
“Okay, so Bill O'Reilly said something, and there's a small and innocent company called O'Reilly Auto Parts somewhere in the Midwest, and a bunch of generic text analytics engines linked Bill O'Reilly to O'Reilly Auto Parts, and the O'Reilly Auto Parts stock dr…”
Amanda Stent Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 9:48 Text Analytics for Finance // Amanda Stent, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Stent: One-minute news reporting delay corresponded to 3% stock price move
“The distance between 10 38 and 10 39 Was about three percent in the stock price. The distance between the SEC headline and 1055, 20 minutes later, was a 12% absolute difference in the stock price.”
Amanda Stent Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 3:13 Text Analytics for Finance // Amanda Stent, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Stent: SEC declared Twitter valid for official corporate disclosures
“SEC has declared that Twitter, in particular, can be used to provide company, official company announcements.”
Amanda Stent Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 3:38 Text Analytics for Finance // Amanda Stent, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bloomberg NLP models feed over 100 Bloomberg Terminal screens
“And they feed over a hundred different screens within the Bloomberg terminal, which provide company trend information, company tweet information, sentiment information, sentiment alerts, tweets on mergers, tweets by the president of the United States, et ceter…”
Amanda Stent Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 9:17 Text Analytics for Finance // Amanda Stent, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Contradicted
Stent: Bloomberg sentiment feed outputs probabilistic buy or sell signals
“So the Bloomberg sentiment feed is not just positive or negative. I like it right. It's buy or sell, and it's with probability so that you can use those in your own models.”
Amanda Stent Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 23:30 Text Analytics for Finance // Amanda Stent, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
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