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Re:Show HN: Gauge of the World's Faith in Humanity by imkevinxu on Monday March 18, 2013 @02:44PM (#5396283)
Hi! Creator here, yes the sentiment analysis could definitely use more work but we've found our naiive approach to be about 95% accurate which was good enough for our MVP.

Definite idea, some friends have mentioned it might be useful for brands

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Re:Show HN: Gauge of the World's Faith in Humanity by fatjokes on Monday March 18, 2013 @03:48PM (#5396683)
Might I ask what exactly is the naive approach? Is it simply searching for keywords like "lose", "lost", etc?
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Re:Show HN: Gauge of the World's Faith in Humanity by callmecosmas on Monday March 18, 2013 @03:55PM (#5396737)
Pretty much: https://github.com/imkevinxu/faithinhumanity/blob/master/fai...
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