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St. Louis emotions show during World Series Game 6
Thursday’s St. Louis Cardinals World Series Game 6 was probably the most exciting game in Major League Baseball history. The game was an emotional roller-coaster. We decided it would be fun to do a quick analysis of the tweet-stream flowing into STLTweetsduring the game time. The graph below plots the “relative emotion” in 5 minute [...]
Did you pull that number out of a hat?
After the #SMCSTL meeting last night, I’ve been asked several times where our most-influential ranking came from. Unlike Bullwinkle, we did NOT pull that number out of a hat. The algorithm, obviously can’t be fully revealed for many reasons: People would try to game it It’s in flux as we add/remove/tune parameters I talk like [...]
