The authors plan on selling the "tools" to police departments, those "tools" being the exact same kind of analysis as this report, but again and for more money.
Word clouds are actually a surprising effective tactic when it comes to sentiment analysis as it relates to generating advertiser profiles and other things like content recommendation.
But this study is using it in the opposite way of that. I.e. the phrase acab can be used to determine if a forum is leftist or or not because pre identified leftist spaces use that phrase, it cannot be applied to say this is what leftists are.
you mean word clouds aren't a valid method of analyzing data?
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its not dogshit it has an agenda im sure it does what its supposed too quite well
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Its job is to convince dumb feds to pay for their "analysis".
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you mean you havent offloaded your brains computing needs to the cyber-swarming of our anarcho-socialist hivemind? missing out
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yes
The authors plan on selling the "tools" to police departments, those "tools" being the exact same kind of analysis as this report, but again and for more money.
you’re so right on the p hacking part, they coulda just pretended they ran an analysis and BSd the interpretation.
“we found it was approaching significance with a P =.10” or something
god i hate bad data as well
Cops aren't familliar with the literature.
Word clouds are actually a surprising effective tactic when it comes to sentiment analysis as it relates to generating advertiser profiles and other things like content recommendation.
But this study is using it in the opposite way of that. I.e. the phrase acab can be used to determine if a forum is leftist or or not because pre identified leftist spaces use that phrase, it cannot be applied to say this is what leftists are.
I think that was a word cloud that was posted on one of our forums.