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Analyze Your HN Posts with Watson User Modeling

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Re: Analyze Your HN Posts with Watson User Modeling

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post #5

Interesting, I analyzed myself and patio11. any insight on the tech stack and how it was implemented?

It would be interesting to see the code.

I'll throw it on Github right away. I basically just used IBMs Node sample code which had it all there I just hooked it up to the HN api :p. https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/#starters/nodejs/index.html#...

Re: Analyze Your HN Posts with Watson User Modeling

#13

Is there any insight as to how this works? I got an Openness rating of 97% and a Harmony rating of 100%, both of which I know are not true. (I also received a Love rating of 1% under my Needs, although that's pretty accurate.)

It's using this Watson API: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...

and using the sample Node project to show the results. I am still exploring it myself :p

Re: Analyze Your HN Posts with Watson User Modeling

#19
post #8

This is very cool. Although I don't know how accurate this is, if calibrated and tuned to yield a certain degree of accuracy it will have a variety of use cases. For example -- When interviewing someone, being able to run their github username (if known of course) to analyze their commit messages, comments, discussions. Or even their hn, reddit, twitter user names (if the usernames are linked with their first names,…

But can you really judge a person based upon commits them might make?

You can read the words they wrote but you cannot perceive the tone they wrote it in....I dont think this is helpful and may dismiss candidates that are otherwise perfect except when Watson analyzes them.

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