Tag: social media
Apr 12, 2018 |
The abuse of social media data highlighted this week by two days of media-trained testimony by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shines a spotlight on the privacy tradeoffs inherent in the widespread use of convenient, addictive applications. Read more…
Feb 1, 2018 |
Data collaboration startup Data.world released a list of its top data sets and collaboration projects that included journalists’ efforts to trace social media’s influence on the 2016 presidential election and a “Bitcoin Regret Calculator” Read more…
Jan 5, 2018 |
What company wouldn’t want access to limitless consumer conversation discussing their brand, competitors, and marketing campaigns? Social media provides a public place for just such conversations, and social listening empowers proactive brand teams to access those vital insights. Read more…
May 23, 2017 |
Occasionally we hear about predictive data modeling aimed at gaining psychological insight that at first blush seems – even to tech sophisticates who pooh-pooh AI alarmism – like a primitive version of something unsettling to come, something too penetrating for comfort, something with the potential to compromise our privacy, even our sense of independence. Read more…
May 10, 2017 |
Machine learning is entering production at Twitter as a way of ranking tweets and boosting engagement.
Twitter engineers this week unveiled the social media platform’s ranking algorithm driven by deep neural networks. Read more…
Feb 27, 2017 |
In journalism, researching what to write about often takes more time and effort than actually writing. But the online news site Mashable has found a way to accelerate the editorial process using a judicious application of big data tech and data science. Read more…
Oct 13, 2016 |
Social media data feeds being packaged by location-based analytics platform vendors and recently marketed as police surveillance tools are drawing fire from a leading U.S. civil liberties group who insists the technology is being to target lawful protests. Read more…
Sep 6, 2016 |
Data industry groups are cautioning the government to take a middle course on a proposal to collect social media data about foreign travelers entering the U.S. under a visa waiver program. Read more…
May 15, 2015 |
There’s been a lot of time and attention dedicated to mining social media with big data techniques. With more than 400 million tweets a day, you’re almost certain to find a trending Twitter topic that’s relevant to you. Read more…
Aug 21, 2014 |
An estimated 1.8 billion photos are shared on social media each day. Current “social listening tools” can’t analyze all this data.
Enter Ditto Labs Inc., which touts its proprietary “visual recognition engine” Read more…
