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Oct 10
Tue
Twitter Mood Predicts the Stock Market (txt)
Apparently: 87.6% accuracy when predicting daily up/down changes in DJIA at daily close. Uses Twitter to calculate "calmness index" and predict DJIA direction 2-6 days later. See also: HN comments thread on this.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25900/

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