Kanjoya’s Founder Appears on Bloomberg TV
Posted by Armen in Blog, News
Our founder, Armen Berjikly, recently appeared on Bloomberg News to discuss social media’s role in national tragedies, like the Boston bombings. Armen notes how the reaction on social media– from vigilantism to the moment by moment reporting of the manhunt, are actually good signs of a population that still cares, and wants to do what they can to bring justice and peace where it is disrupted.
Take a look!
Armen Berjikly on Bloomberg TV
When Change is not a Choice: Kanjoya’s founder Armen Berjikly speaks at TEDx
Posted by Armen in Experience Project, Inside Kanjoya
This summer, Kanjoya’s founder Armen Berjikly was invited to share our story at the internationally celebrated TEDx conference in Yerevan, Armenia. This year’s theme was “Embracing Change,” a perfect fit for us!
Armen spoke about his path starting Experience Project (which ultimately became Kanjoya), in his talk entitled, “When Change is not a Choice.” Change is perhaps the only constant in our lives, and much of it is unplanned, unexpected, and usually unwelcome. But change almost always presents a choice to us. This is the process that led to EP, and it is a positive, gripping, and inspirational story. (more…)
Twitter Users Annoyed by Both VP Candidates, but Biden Provokes Amusement, Optimism
Posted by Moritz in Crane, Emotional Intelligence, Politics
Given his boss’s flat, uninspired performance in the first presidential debate, the consensus coming into the vice presidential debate Thursday night was that Joe Biden would arrive on stage guns blazing, eager to display the passion President Obama had so sorely lacked. He did not disappoint, and the result was a fiery, often testy, exchange of views between Biden and his opponent, Congressman Paul Ryan. After witnessing the highly charged back-and-forth, we decided to use our emotional intelligence technology, Crane, to take a quick look at what people were saying on Twitter. (more…)
Building a Roadmap of Human Emotion: EMOTIONS & WORDS
Posted by Guest in Crane, Emotional Intelligence, Engineering
by Andrés Gómez Emilsson
Hubs and Gateways: Last week we uncovered the Big Five Human Mindsets and showed how current emotions can predict future mindsets. This week we are going to reveal how and why people transition from mindset to mindset. Specifically, key things you will take away from reading this entry will be:
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Which emotions work as stepping stones towards a happier and more positive state of mind.
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That the things that makes you become happy are not the same as the things that help you stay happy.
Building a Roadmap of Human Emotion: THE BIG 5
Posted by Guest in Crane, Emotional Intelligence, Engineering
by Andrés Gómez Emilsson
Positive emotions. The size of nodes represents how common a given emotion is. The thickness of the edges is proportional to how often people travel between two given emotions.
Emotions are complicated, unpredictable and deeply personal. We feel them; we usually don’t think we can quantify them. Some people even claim that emotions are completely outside the sphere of what can be understood. After all, emotions are not perceived with the mind but instead felt with the heart, right?
But if we hope for technology that is more sensitive to human needs and interactions, we will need a more structured understanding of emotions. At Kanjoya, we’ve built a dataset that can finally take us there. For the first time, we’re uncovering the structure that underlies our disparate emotional experiences, and we’re doing it democratically and empirically — by learning from what real people really feel.
In a series of posts starting now we will walk through several insights we discovered while analyzing our dataset of emotion updates. In this first post we start by showing you how we discovered the big five human mindsets (not to be confused with the big five personality traits) and how your current emotion can predict your future.
How Kanjoya’s Crane Understands Our Emotions
Posted by in Crane, Emotional Intelligence
The Crane emotional analysis engine grew up in the emotional heart of the internet, the Experience Project. Every day, members of the Experience Project are writing stories about who they are, how they feel, and what they’re doing. Every day, members interact with each other’s content in structured and emotional ways. And every day, Crane’s emotional engine learns from the lightheartedness, the joy, the anger, and myriad other emotions that abound on the Experience Project.
The result is a powerful and nuanced model of human expression. The Crane engine is aware of all the tricks we use to express ourselves online; it is sensitive to human emotion, not just a simplified notion of positive/negative.
Experience Project’s 1st East Coast Meetup in NYC
Posted by Kate in Community, Experience Project
With an open invitation to our online community of members from around the world, it brought together a diverse group of people with unique experiences.
Many in the community wondered if the the supportive, welcoming, and inclusive atmosphere on EP, would transfer into the physical worlds and face-to-face interaction? Would members be as friendly, unguarded, and easy to talk to as they are onsite? Well–As guest began to arrive at Latitude Bar and Grill in Manhattan a couple blocks from Times Square, the positive energy in the room quickly reflected the same atmosphere that makes EP such a unique and comfortable space. Everyone was engaged, included in the group conversation.
Dr. Grace Dammann & The Power of Storytelling
Posted by Kate in Community, Inside Kanjoya, Speaker Series
Our lives are made up of emotional experiences that contribute to making us who we are. It’s why our monthly Speaker Series is so vital to the work we do. As part of the series Dr. Grace Dammann, the subject of a new documentary, and her production team shared the story of her life-changing experience and its aftermath.
Why T.V. Networks + Publications Flock to EP
Posted by Arsineh in Community, Experience Project
Television talk shows and publications sometimes feature guests with unique and uncommon addictions, behaviors, or perspectives. Other times, they interview people who speak about experiences that many can relate to, but because of the social taboo around the topic or fear of being looked down upon, few ever discuss openly with their friends, family, or community.
People Happy to See Santorum Go
Posted by Armen in Emotional Intelligence, Politics
After an especially fascinating and tumultuous Republican primary season, Rick Santorum bowed out of the race today. While the concession speech emphasized that it was a decision made in deference to his family’s needs, the reality was Santorum was now facing a monumental path to gain the nomination, with both mathematical and psychological odds deeply against him.
We though this was a perfect opportunity to use Kanjoya’s Emotional Intelligence tools to dig deep into the emotional reaction of folks on Twitter and discover: How did people feel about this (somewhat surprising) decision? (more…)