Swan: Likefolio's sentiment analysis model has a 2% to 4% error rate
Andy Swan · 775: FinTech Founder: I'll Never Raise Capital Again! · Sep 7, 2017 · at 15:08
Andy Swan explains the technical nuances and error rate of Likefolio's social media sentiment extraction algorithm.
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“About two to four percent, depending on the company, of our sentiment where we're, we register a sentiment, positive or negative, is a miss.”
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