Jodange.com - Deriving Foresight from Insight

You can learn a lot about a company by reading the wealth of data contained in an annual report or by tracking the value of its stock. These objective data points are obviously great tools but they do not give you any insight about the subjective opinions of the key decision makers behind the company. Jodange fills this void of subjective data by providing an incredible engine that scours the internet looking for comments made by key decision makers, compiling these opinions over time and thereby giving a better understanding of who is worth listening to and how best to correlate their opinions to outcome over time. Consider the example given by Jolange: Gain the ability to track multiple experts on oil prices or interest rates, find out when their opinions change and have the ability to track their change in sentiment relative to a specific market index.

“By identifying and isolating peoples' opinions and sentiments about key topics over time, we are able to understand who is worth listening to and how best to correlate their opinions to outcomes over time. We ignore any sentence or phrase deemed to be factual, and instead focus on phrases that are subjective in order to determine the sentiment (positive, neutral, or negative) of the subjective statement.”

Information is everything but not all of it is found in annual reports or official company correspondences. The Jodange technology has potential applications for a plethora of people including traders, bankers, journalists and many more. By providing an intelligent engine that allows you to find out what people think about certain economic factors over time, Jodange should become a chosen analytic tool.

They appear business focused but this technology could presumably be used for a vast array of applications outside of the business space. Could this tool be used to predict election outcomes or major decisions by key international players?