Wednesday, January 29, 2014

CNN announces partnership with Twitter to 'revolutionize' news gathering


Twitter's new head of news, Vivian Schiller, announced her first project today: a partnership with CNN and the New York startup Dataminr. The initiative will help journalists cover breaking news by making sense of the flood of public information on Twitter. Dataminr uses machine learning algorithms to analyze the Twitter firehose of data and ighlighti the needle in the haystack so CNN reporters can find the most important, relevant, and reliable facts and images from around the world.


Using machine learning algorithms to analyze the Twitter firehose of data


Dataminr is a five-year-old startup that until now has largely worked with clients in financial services, helping big banks and hedge funds make real-time investment decisions by...


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