Weekly Roundup: Twitter as an Analyst's Tool, Amazon Skews Younger, and the Rich Flee the Equities Market
Posted on December 07, 2012 at 15:20 PM EST
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL It’s Friday and that means it’s time for Minyanville’s weekly wrap-up. Here are all the top stories from this week’s coverage of the markets technology media and more. How Twitter Is Being Mined to Predict Market-Moving Events Last year the London-based Hedge Fund Derwent Capital Markets bought research conducted by Indiana University computing professor Johan Bollen for close to $40 million. Who said academics wasn't a career to get you rich? His paper's title alone might explain the corporate interest: "Twitter Mood Predicts the Stock Market" claimed that by using algorithms to detect mood data in tweets ...