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At a National Laboratory, AI Tackles Misinformation & More

In a world that is slowly recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and a country that is slowly recovering from the 2020 election, misinformation is an increasingly urgent topic, with issues like vaccination and election in Read more…

MIT Analytics Reveal How Anti-Maskers Leverage Data Visualization

You’ve probably seen them: the Facebook posts from a relative or a friend of a friend claiming that if you look at the numbers, the pandemic isn’t a big deal, masks don’t work – that kind of thing. Usually, there Read more…

Google, Twitter Expand Data Cloud Partnership

Google and Twitter are expanding a partnership that will see the social media platform complete the move of its analytics, data processing and machine learning workloads to Google’s Data Cloud. The partners said the sh Read more…

How AI Accelerates the Fight Against Fake News

Microchips in coronavirus vaccines. Pedophile rings in pizza restaurants. Jewish space lasers. The Internet--bless its heart--has always suffered from its share of wacky wingnuts and conspiracy theories. But in the wake Read more…

Election 2016: A Rich Opportunity for Data-Centric Storytelling

Get ready to consume some data. If you're following the election today, you're likely to be immersed in it. Thanks to a new generation of interactive data visualization tools, news junkies have powerful new ways to inges Read more…

IBM Buys Weather Company, Forecasts Watson Expansion

IBM, which earlier in the week announced it was launching a new data analytics service with Twitter and the Weather Company, upped the ante on Wednesday (Oct. 28) when it disclosed it would acquire most of the latter's a Read more…

Facebook Opens Its Own Private Firehose

Facebook yesterday unleashed a new data offering that will, for the first time, allow third parties to access aggregated and anonymized data about the online activities of Facebook users. Called "Topic Data," the service Read more…

Why Twitter Is the Low-Hanging Fruit of Social Analytics

Nobody is mistaking the Twitter fire hose for a crystal ball. But big companies are increasingly turning to Twitter and other social media outlets for a range analytic tasks, from gauging customer sentiment about bendy s Read more…

IBM Embraces the Twitter Fire Hose

IBM dove headfirst into the Twitter-sphere yesterday when it announced a "landmark partnership" with the social media giant. The union will see Big Blue helping its blue chip customers perform sentiment analysis upon Twi Read more…

Twitter Funds MIT ‘Social Machines’ Effort

Machines could become more social thanks to a new Twitter-funded initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's vaunted Media Lab that will seek to develop new technologies to make sense of social chatter rang Read more…

Twitter Looks to Leverage Social Data with Gnip Deal

Social media behemoth Twitter said it is acquiring long-time data partner Gnip in a move designed to leverage aggregated Twitter data to pinpoint consumer trends and link with customers. Read more…

Mining Twitter Data for Disease Risk

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Virginia Tech are using real-time social media data to track the incidence of HIV and drug-related behaviors with the intention of guiding future prevention efforts. Read more…

Björk Was Wrong About Human Behavior, Big Data Says

Icelandic pop superstar Björk might have had a hard time making sense of human behavior, as she sings about in the song of the same name. But when it comes to protests and cyber attacks, big data can accurately predict how people will behave, MIT scientists have learned. Read more…

Apple Nabs Topsy for Sentiment Analysis

Apple will be doing some heavy-duty customer sentiment analysis in the near future thanks to its recent acquisition of Spotify. The reported $200-plus-million purchase gets Apple access to the entire, unabridged collection of tweets that have been made since Twitter was born in 2006, and sophisticated tools for analyzing those tweets. Read more…

Twitter Files for IPO

A company that is serving as the data backbone for a lot of big data programs, Twitter announced via tweet that they are moving to take the company public with a planned IPO. Read more…

Twitter Conjures Up a Hadoop-Storm Hybrid, Ponders IPO

This week, Twitter released to the open source community a new data platform called "Summingbird" that glues the batch-oriented processing of Hadoop with the real-time event processing of its own Storm framework. The release comes on the heels of a report about a possible initial public offering of stock for the San Francisco company. Read more…

Putting Some Real Time Sting into Hive

A coalition of Hive community enthusiasts report that they have achieved a 45x performance increase for Apache Hive through an effort they have branded “The Stinger Initiative.” The group says they are aiming at 100x improvement. Read more…

Gnip’s Take on the Library of Twitter

Last week, we highlighted the Library of Congress’s effort in archiving the entire Twitter database. Chris Moody, President and COO of Gnip, spoke to Datanami on the challenges and the prospects going forward of the Twitter-LOC project. Read more…

Building the Library of Twitter

On an average day people around the globe contribute 500 million messages to Twitter. Collecting and storing every single tweet and its resulting metadata from a single day would be a daunting task in and of itself. The Library of Congress is trying something slightly more ambitious than that: storing and indexing every tweet ever posted. Read more…

Film Industry to Turn to Wikipedia for Predictive Analytics?

Might Wikipedia be a better indicator of sentiment than Twitter? In the movie industry, the answer might be yes. That is, as far as projected box office revenue is concerned. According to a paper from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, data taken from the massive online encyclopedia serves as a greater long-term predictive indicator of box office revenue than the 140-character social media site. Read more…

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