Code created by a start-up company called Narrative Science takes data, including sports statistics, company financial reports, and housing sales, and turns it into readable news articles. Supporters of this type of software note an increasing sophistication in the technology's ability to make inferences, understand language, and generate proper sentences. It could be used, they say, as a low-cost tool for publications to expand coverage when editorial budgets are tight. The combination of advances in its writing engine and data mining can also take computer journalism to another level by finding unexpected correlations. What do you think? Will robot writers play a valuable role in newsrooms? Yes or no? RESULTS
YES
56.25%
NO
43.75%

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