Even though the underlying "hard" economic data had not changed much, the "soft" data (sentiment-based economic indicators) immediately jumped as investors expected imminent tax cuts and economy-boosting fiscal stimulus programs.
So there's this startup called SmogFarm, which does big-data sentiment analysis, "pulse of the planet" stuff.
He envisions the decline in stocks depressing economic data and sentiment measures, forcing the Fed to reconsider.
If all you have is text, the technologies of data extraction, sentiment analysis and Watson-like approaches to evidence-based reasoning will be useful.
In this study, we attempt to fill this research void by proposing a technique, called SMeDA-SA, to mine Twitter data for sentiment analysis and then predict the stock movement of specific listed companies.
HONG KONG — The dollar trimmed gains early Monday as investors pocketed profits after Friday's rally, but strong U.S. jobs data lifted sentiment across Asian financial markets, encouraging investors to move into riskier assets.
Overall the market has dipped lower, with poor Chinese service sector data affecting sentiment, albeit the news prompted some to suggest the country would introduce further measures to stimulate its economy.
At this year's open house, on Thursday, February 12 at 12 45 p.m., our researchers are going to present their work in areas as diverse as as speech recognition, big data, image sentiment analysis, and linguistics.
Stocks were steady on Thursday as strong economic data lifted sentiment and offset a sharp decline in the price of Apple's shares after the company reported a disappointing quarter on Wednesday.
