In honor of the Sentiment Analysis Symposium this week in San Francisco (you are going to be there, right?), here's a summary of best practices for tuning sentiment.   These will work for any sentiment analysis system, but you should use ours.

Because it's the best, 'natch.

1) 2 datasets:  Gather a set of documents and split it in half. 

I got kinda dissed in the comments for being too vague in my last blog post, with a demand for a video/demo.

We have heard and are responding!

We're working on more, but check out this quick demo of concept topics.

Check this out full-screen so you can see what I'm typing.

One of our partners up in the Great White North has taken the leap and is the first to roll out our French language pack.

Our buddies over at MediaVantage http://www.mediavantage.com have just announced some significant improvements to their already really good service. Included with improvements to their content stream for social media (including both more stuff and better filtering) and an improved search interface; they've launched some stuff that's near and dear to my heart - automated tonality scoring.