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- 1. Computer-Assisted Consumer Profiling on Twitter By Olin Gallet http://www.olingallet.com @olingallet
- 2. Profiling in General Takes observable qualities and estimates the person(s) behind those qualities. Example uses: Criminal Profiling (Law and Order, Criminal Minds) Video Games (Bartle Gamer Types) Marketing (Intelligent Ad Retargeting) Human Resources
- 3. Definitions Consumer profile – what a person likes and dislikes in terms of products, their spending habits based off their age, gender, marital status, etc. Sentiment analysis – studying how a person(s) feel about something through scientific measurement; can be positive, negative, or neutral.
- 4. Why care? Better sales Better targeting Consumer feedback Research and Development
- 5. Why care? Better sales Better targeting Consumer feedback Research and Development
- 6. Straight From Twitter's Privacy Policy Advertising: “To help us deliver ads, measure their performance, and make them more relevant to you based on criteria like your activity on Twitter and visits to our ad partners' websites” People may object this as an invasion of privacy, but you're stepping into their environment and trying to play by your rules.
- 7. Why Twitter? “Tweets” are limited to 140 characters, providing succinct tidbits of information. Accessible on mobile devices Good to use for events such as a concert, convention, etc. Easily accessible through a JSON API.
- 8. Why not Twitter? “Tweets” are 140 characters, sometimes not enough for a proper sentence. Can limit descriptiveness Fake profiles can give false information Difficulty in traditional natural language processing ->
- 9. Natural Language Processing Methods -Parts-of-speech tagging – utilize a dictionary (ie Wordnet) to identify words as nouns, verbs, etc. -can't be used with all words, for example: Fire: As a verb: I will fire a gun. As a verb: I will fire that individual. As a noun: I didn't start the fire.
- 10. Sentiment Analysis Twitter provides sentiment analysis, but it's poor since it only looks for smilies and frownies. Computers understand the denotation easily, connotation is another story. -Negation -Adverb/Adjective Modifiers -Sarcasm Basic sentiment analysis searches for emotionally charged words using a dictionary. More advanced versions use machine learning to train the computer.
- 11. Brief Word on Machine Learning -Involves teaching the intelligence what conditions produce a certain result. -The more data provided, the more confident intelligence becomes.
- 12. Importance of Hashtags Hashtags are often unambiguous Showcase group thought Act as keys when searching tweets
- 13. What to Consider in Terms of the Consumer Person giving the message (celebrity status, followers, how often they post) Date (timestamp, how new or old the product is) The product The component of the product (if applicable) The overall sentiment
- 14. A Little More About Data Sources Consider online reputation (Klout): -Number of followers -Number following -Frequency of tweets -Variance of tweets -”Verified” status, Join Date -Number of retweets, favorites Online reputation helps filter out spambots, fake profiles, social honeypots. Best you can do without knowing the relationship between people.
- 15. Good Example: I dislike my iPhone. The battery life is too short. (Work this out with group time permitting)
- 16. Bad Example: LMAO dat RiFF RAFF album...iceberg simpson off da chain #neonicon #gettinpaid -internet acronyms -non-existant sentence structure -idiomatic phrase
- 17. Analysis Over Time People are more likely to remember negativity than positivity. Vengeance breeds vengeance, apologies rebuild trust, counteract vengeance (see Dan Ariely research) Emotions are contagious http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/facebook- emotions-are-contagious/
- 18. Putting it Together Use natural language processing to understand what products the consumer cares about. Use sentiment analysis to understand how they feel about the product. Address any negativity (if feasible) so negativity about the product. Help people rationalize their purchases with positivity.
- 19. What I want you to take away - Profiling in general can be wrong. - Computers can't understand language the same way people can. They won't be able to get it right 100%. - Consider the ethics. - Internet is public, hard to keep things private with caching, spiders, hackers, etc. - Don't let the Internet replace real life. People can be forgiven, online reputation can only be hidden.
- 20. Related Topics Game Theory Probabilities and Statistics Psychology Sociology Natural Language Programming Language Syntax Image Processing, Facial Recognition (for pictures and Instagram)
- 21. Helpful Resources www.lct-master.org/files/MullenSentimentCourseSlides.pdf Sentiment Analysis Tutorial http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ Wordnet, Lexical Database http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/publication_details.php?id=6010 AFINN, Sentiment Dictionary http://gigaom.com/2013/10/03/stanford-researchers-to-open-source-model-they-say- Stanford Research http://danariely.com/the-books/an-excerpt-from-chapter-5-of-%E2%80%9Cthe-upside Dan Ariely on vengeance