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0 pointsmseebach14y ago0 comments

And why would I want to know what "the collective emotional consensus" is? What's the pain? How will it get me laid?

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jiganti14y ago· 5 in thread

I'm envisioning it to be used for this purpose as a sort of review site. Having the "collective emotional consensus" of a restaurant down the street might give you a better idea of whether it's worth trying out than seeing 3.5/5 stars on Yelp will. Showing legislators a "collective emotional consensus" of peoples' moods towards the "SOPA" keyword would be interesting as well.

steventruong14y ago

This is just personal opinion but I wouldn't care to see emotional consensus. That does nothing for me. Rather, I would like to see more in-depth reviews and ways to flag reviews.

Taking your example of Yelp. I want to be able to filter out (personalize) my overall reviews by being able to flag reviews I think are ridiculous (such as 1 star ratings base on other loud customers that may not have anything to do with the restaurant or food they are reviewing). I would also like to dive in deeper on reviews such as reviewing specific dishes, viewing full menus online, etc...

Emotions don't tell me how a particular dish tastes. It doesn't tell me why someone reacted the way they rated the restaurant (or whatever). Personally, the collective emotions idea doesn't solve anything for me.

kls14y ago

To me, it could be useful for nightlife but for a restaurant it only applies to a certain segment of the market. If I am going to a 5 star dining establishment, on a date, I really don't care about the emotion, because I am not interesting in socializing. Now for nightlife, I would want to be around happy people, but I don't know if that can accurately be discerned. Most people are going to say I am happy at the bar, so all bars are going to be happy.

capsule_toy14y ago

It seems like you keep looking at this idea from the perspective of what you can do with all the data you can potentially gather, but you need to solve what's going to motivate people to give you a single piece of data.

Maro14y ago

Why not just try to mine this data from Twitter?

helen84200014y ago

I was about the say the same thing.

Your data set is too small for people to yet understand why they should be using it.

Determining the mood from tweets and linking that mood to the keywords in the tweet - that would be interesting and patterns would start to emerge immediately.

kls14y ago

As much as this may come off as jest, if you app can answer one of these two questions, you are on to something. Your app has to fill a need, if it does not fill one then the need defaults to fun or interesting, which are the hardest and weakest ones to address respectively. If you are targeting fun, then you have to ask how am I going to make it addictive? If you are targeting interesting you have to answer how am I going to keep it from just being a novelty?

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jiganti14y ago· 5 in thread

steventruong14y ago

This is just personal opinion but I wouldn't care to see emotional consensus. That does nothing for me. Rather, I would like to see more in-depth reviews and ways to flag reviews.

kls14y ago

capsule_toy14y ago

Maro14y ago

Why not just try to mine this data from Twitter?

helen84200014y ago

I was about the say the same thing.

Your data set is too small for people to yet understand why they should be using it.

Determining the mood from tweets and linking that mood to the keywords in the tweet - that would be interesting and patterns would start to emerge immediately.

kls14y ago

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