
#193 - Has the New York Times Lost Its Way?
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How to Monetize Your Emotions
In 20 17, the new york times data science department started asking young, very educated readers to rate how articles were making them feel. They then took this information and what they did with it was they created a machine learning algorithm that now predicts how articles at the nearer times are going to make readers feel. And they sell this prediction to advertisers. All right, i think that's a very good characterization of where the fault line is in this argument. We conclude round two of this intelligence squared us. Now we move on to round three. The debaters have their stand to try to persuade you to vote for their side of the argument.
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