Narrative Science

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Narrative Science
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founding January 2010
Seat Chicago , Illinois
Branch Technology software
Website narrativescience.com

Narrative Science is an American technology company founded in 2010 by Stuart Frankel . By generating text , it converts numbers and statistics into natural language with the help of the artificial intelligence "Quill" .

history

It all started as a project at Northwestern University with an algorithm called StatsMonkey . This algorithm was written by students under the supervision of Kris Hammond and Larry Birnbaum , two professors at the university mentioned. Baseball results were collected, analyzed, evaluated and an automatic text was generated.

In 2010, Stuart Frankel founded Narrative Science. The start was financed with donations. One of the main investors was the CIA , with whom the company works.

Products

Quill

Quill is an advanced natural language generation technology powered by artificial intelligence and provided as Software as a Service (SaaS). Automated narrative generation algorithms take raw data, determine the meaning of the data, and then generate easy-to-understand descriptions and explanations in natural language. Chief developer Kris Hammond explains the platform's process as "data analysis for meaning and insight." The software uses certain groups of data to explain to users questions about the state of the world. To this day, Quill can only write in English.

Quill Engage

In March 2014, Narrative Science launched Quill Engage, a free Google Analytics application that delivers natural language reports to website owners. The application analyzes historical data and trends from Google Analytics to produce both weekly and monthly reports that are delivered in narrative form. Quill Engage reports metrics and performance indicators for users, such as content engagement, web traffic and sources, referrals, paid search, and audience segmentation. The technology is carried out by the Narrative Science Quill platform.

Investors

Narrative Science has multiple investors, including SAP and In-Q-Tel , the CIA's equity fund.

Clientele and field of work

The CIA and financial markets are main target groups. The main sources for data acquisition are e.g. B. Forbes Magazine and Wall Street .

“Quill” is also used in the journalism department. First, articles about sports results as well as weather reports, i.e. articles with heavy numbers, are written by Narrative Science. But Narrative Science has announced its intention to win the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Journalism by 2017 .

Customers include American Century Investments, Mastercard and the National Health Service of England.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 46. ​​Narrative Science AI software that turns data into narratives CNBC 2015
  2. ↑ About us - Narrative Science Narrative Science 2015
  3. ^ Past, Present and Future - Learn more about where we came from, what the future holds and life at Narrative Science. Narrative Science 2015.
  4. ↑ The CIA Invests in Narrative Science and Its Automated Writers All Things D,, 2015.
  5. ↑ Taking data analysis to a new plateau: Narrative Science raises $ 11.5M Cale Guthrie Weissman: September 10, 2013
  6. ^ "How artificial intelligence will make humans smarter" . InformationAge, Vitesse Media, Retrieved December 10, 2014; Rossi, Ben.
  7. ↑ Taking data analysis to a new plateau: Narrative Science raises $ 11.5M Cale Guthrie Weissman: September 10, 2013
  8. ↑ Your Big Data Will Read To You Now October 28, 2014; Alex Woodie
  9. ^ Could robots be the writers of the future? ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Jamie Carter: April 1, 2013, Computing @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.techradar.com
  10. ↑ NHS Choices Selects Narrative Science to Assist with Delivery of Healthcare Information October 28, 2014 7:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
  11. ↑ New Free Google Analytics App From Narrative Science Creates Reports In “Plain English” Amy Gesenhues on March 18, 2014 at 12:31 pm
  12. ↑ Narrative Science Launches Free App to Turn Data Into Readable Documents By David Penn Posted on March 19, 2014
  13. ^ Automated Stories: Using Algorithms to Craft News Content Nicholas Diakopoulos; March 5, 2014.
  14. ↑ Software Narrative Science - Writing robots hit Wall Street in front of FAZ, July 18, 2015, by NORBERT KULS, NEW YORK.
  15. ↑ Robot journalism - texts in no time at all April 4, 2012, by EVGENY MOROZOV
  16. ↑ Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? Wired, AUTHOR: STEVEN LEVY. DATE OF PUBLICATION: 04.24.12 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 4:46 PM.
  17. ↑ NHS Choices Selects Narrative Science to Assist with Delivery of Healthcare Information October 28, 2014 7:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time