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About Seth Grimes

Analytics industry observer -- analyst, consultant, writer -- helping companies find business value in enterprise data and online information. I consult via Alta Plana Corporation, work as an industry analyst, organize the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, and tweet at @sethgrimes.

Please check out the Text Analytics Summit, Boston, June 12-13

The next Text Analytics Summit is coming up in four weeks. The June 12-13 conference will be the 8th annual Boston summit, the 8th Boston summit I’ve been privileged to chair. Will you join us? The summit series was the … Continue reading

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My standard, double-tweet NDA

I consult. I industry analyze. I get asked to sign non-disclosure agreements, NDAs. People tell me things. Businesses tell me about needs, budgets, and procurements. Solution providers tell me about product plans, pricing, customers, financials, merger & acquisition activities, pending … Continue reading

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BI Visualization

I was interviewed recently by Drew Robb, for an article on BI Visualization for Enterprise Apps Today, an IT Business Edge site. The article’s out, Visualization Broadens Business Intelligence’s Appeal, but Drew had room for only selective use of my … Continue reading

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Social sentiment matters — customer opinions, attitudes, and emotions — rants and raves that affect corporate reputation, provide valuable market and brand insights, and help you understand and engage with customers. Yet there are too many low-grade tools out there. … Continue reading

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Pinterest Uninterest

You have to hand it to Pinterest: They’ve won near-immediate Verb status. “Pin it” is social action! just a few years in, thanks in part to $37.5 million in Venture funding, even while use remains invitation-only. It took a killer … Continue reading

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Senti-meter Scans the Twitterverse for Movie Sentiment: Oscar or Runner Up?

The Academy Awards are next Sunday, their 84th iteration, social-media aware as never before. The Academy invites you to “Join the Conversation” via the #Oscars and #CelebrateTheMovies Twitter hashtags and gives over major Web-page real estate to Oscar Blogs and … Continue reading

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Would Beethoven Have Given a Rat’s Ass about Business Analytics?

This posting started off as a comment to Gary Cokins’ SAS blog article, Could Beethoven have implemented business analytics? I decided to share my thoughts more widely however, really reflections about where we in the analytics world came from, and … Continue reading

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Sentiment Analysis for Business, Finance & Social Media Showcased at May 8, New York Symposium

The speaker line-up next Sentiment Analysis Symposium is out. This symposium, the fourth, is slated for May 8, 2012 in New York. With speakers and panelists leading firms (including American Express, Fidelity Investments, Kraft Foods, the Red Cross, Thomson Reuters, … Continue reading

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Decoding Content at Tech@State: Real Time Awareness

I’m moderating the panel this afternoon at the Tech@State conference, convened by the State Department, taking place at George Washington University. We — David Broniatowski (Synexxus), Ravi Patel (Yahoo! Research), Noah Smith (Carnegie Mellon Univ), and V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ of … Continue reading

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Smart Content Re-viewed: Text Analytics and Semantic Content Enrichment

A recent blog article of mine (thankfully) gave rise to a number of off-topic comments concerning the meaning of semantic content enrichment. As Marie Wallace of IBM remarked, it’s great to see the term semantic content enrichment generating discussion although … Continue reading

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