[box]• This essay was featured as a guest post on ReadWrite on August 5th, 2015.[/box] The search giant humanized the Web. Now it needs to do it again. Google’s stated mission is to “organize the world’s information,” but when it launched its search engine, it wound up doing more than […]
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Herd Investors Spotted: Visualization of Hedge Fund Herd Mentality
[box]• Think Advisor featured these results in their article Are You a Contrarian or Part of the Herd? on May 5th, 2015.[/box] It’s no secret that many investors think alike. When they do, we say they have a “herd mentality”; when they don’t, we call them “contrarians”. And it’s usually speculation as […]
The Curalytics Clique
The Curalytics Clique is an interdisciplinary, invitation-only community & “think-tank” that discusses subjective systems across the dimensions of machine learning, recommendation systems, marketing, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, sociology, semiotics, and design. Members include CTOs, entrepreneurs, academics, researchers, product managers, and engineers working at large tech companies, venture backed firms, start ups, universities, and research […]
Songza has a Curation Scaling Problem, and now Google Does Too
[box]• This analysis was featured as a guest post on VentureBeat on July 8th, 2014. • Click here to listen to Dan Gummel’s narration of this article, courtesy of VentureBeat.[/box] The Songza team will do great things for Google—but it won’t be because of curation. Google recently acquired Songza for what […]
Visualizing Taste in Art with Big Data Curation Analysis – Curalytics and Curiator
[box]• The Independent published the 1st of these data visualizations in the article Invasion of the algorithms: The modern-day equations which can rule our lives on March 9, 2015[/box] Big data and art don’t usually go together. Until now that is. Here at Curalytics, we’ve teamed up with Curiator, an […]