Crowdsourced Twitter Contest Aims To Predict Psychopaths From Their Tweets

Can you predict whether someone is a psychopath in 140 characters or less? The organizers of this crowdsourced data science contest think so!

Hosted on Australian crowdsourcing platform Kaggle, the “Psychopathy Prediction Based on Twitter Usage” contest asks data scientists to come up with an algorithm to determine someone’s personality – specifically whether or not they have a high degree of psychopathy – base on their Twitter use. The contest is organized by the The