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Huffington Goes Viral with Data Science – You can Too

Flack's Revenge

At last week’s NY Data Science Meetup (at Metis NYC ) we learned how the Huffington Post , the largest social publisher, is using data science to better understand which articles can benefit from a promotional push. Their efforts have propelled merely popular stories into through-the-roof viral successes.

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The Real Master of Hype

Mark My Words

You can listen to modish analyses of modern communications and you can join the high priests of Google worshipping at the altar of big data. Barnum knew better than anyone the power of the crowd – long before Facebook and Twitter, he had viral marketing down pat. He started out selling lottery tickets at the age of 12.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

So far, we've seen the development of targeted advertising, big data collection, analytics, and other digital tracking methods for more efficient marketing and information dissemination (called Big Data), all of which have potentially sinister as well as positive uses.

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