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newBrand-Analytics is putting sentiment analysis to use in creative ways. This new company uses sentiment analysis to help major national chains improve their service and customer satisfaction.

So they used what is called Common Land Unit data that shows the location, shape, and size of all the farmed fields in the country. Even

Sentiment analysis deals with the potential biases of Twitter, blogs, and various review sites by aggregating and analyzing Open Data from all of them, in the hope that the combined data will be more representative and accurate.

might use text analysis to speed up the process of drug development.

companies will be able to use the data to help analyze their own business and their competitors’.

Finally, there are companies that offer different kinds of infrastructure—companies that design databases or cloud hosting systems that can help run these systems more cheaply.

One strategy would be to attract consumers by creating a single website for several kinds of choices. BillShrink tried

Screendoor (originally called Procure.io) came out of the work of that team, which developed a system called RFP-EZ that makes it easy for small companies to bid on modest government IT contracts. RFP-EZ has brought in bids about 30 percent lower than those that came in through the standard contract process.

Amazon service that pays people to do these kinds of “human intelligence tasks,” can attract more participants by paying more. But, significantly, higher payments don’t help increase accuracy. The nature of the task, and of the community engaged in