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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…)

An Emotional Roller Coaster for Cubs Fans on Opening Day

Posted by M.T. in Emotional Intelligence

Spring has not yet sprung, but just as they have done for the last 137 years, the Boys of Summer began their annual 8-month long marathon of a Major League Baseball season. To kick the season off with a bang, we at Kanjoya decided to have some fun and use Kanjoya Emotional Intelligence “EI” to track America’s favorite lovable losers, the Chicago Cubs. Kanjoya EI is our new, shiny, amazing, revolutionary product that can take almost any topic and analyze emotion within content around that topic in real-time. We are super excited about the power of Kanjoya EI!  Since our CEO, Peter Jackson’s, son, Brett, plays for the AAA Iowa Cubs, what better team to track than the Cubbies to have some fun and test the amazing abilities of Kanjoya EI.

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