A prediction system that works is a supremely valuable thing, and its makers don’t necessarily have an incentive to share. Bollen and his colleagues, for instance, have commercialized their Twitter model into a form they can sell to hedge funds; over the summer, they entered into an agreement with a British hedge fund that has been using the model as the basis for its investment strategy.
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