AI And Machine Learning On Social Media Data Is Giving Hedge Funds A Competitive Edge
July 6, 2017
Extracting value from a universe of data, analysing sentiment around company names (equities) or about anything else (macro), is a complex journey and we are only about 5% down that road.
The parameters are evolving by which an ever-expanding data set, including the likes of Twitter, pictures, text, video is processed; relying on experts versus the wisdom of the crowd; sentiment derived from a “bag of words”, as opposed to structured linguistic analysis.