Posts Tagged ‘data mining’
Tweets show global trend: Mood swings
CORNELL (US) — Around the world, the day dawns full of promise. But moods go downhill during the day, finally rebounding at night, according to an analysis of 2.4 million tweets in 84 countries. Continue…
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Computer ‘reads’ news to predict conflicts
U. ILLINOIS (US) — By analyzing the overall tone and geographic references of large amounts of global news media, supercomputers could help forecast human behavior. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 23, 2010 13:28 - 0 Comments
‘You’ and Bieber top Tweet wishlists
MCGILL U. (CAN) — “You” is, hands down, the No. 1 thing people want for Christmas according to Xmas Tweets, a website that extracts and prioritizes the most up-to-date holiday wishes posted on the social-networking site Twitter. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 25, 2010 16:59 - 6 Comments
Busted! Astroturf campaign on Twitter
INDIANA U.(US) — The website Truthy.indiana.edu has uncovered one of the most egregious examples of a Twitter-based political astroturfing campaign. (more…)
