Stanford scientists put free text-analysis tool on the web | Big Data + Libraries | Scoop.it

By Andrew Myers and Tom Abate

Ever wondered whether a certain TV show had a slant in favor of a political candidate?

Stanford computer scientists have created a website that gives anyone who can cut and paste the ability to answer such questions, systematically and for free.

The website is known as etcML, short for Easy Text Classification with Machine Learning.

Machine learning is a field of computer science that develops systems that give computers the ability to acquire new understandings in a more human-like way.