University of Pennsylvania researchers have found that the words people use on Twitter can help predict the rate of heart disease deaths in the counties where they live. Places where people tweet happier… Read more »
Pinterest announced Wednesday that it has acquired Kosei, a Palo Alto, California-based startup that focuses on machine learning for product recommendations. It’s a smart buy for Pinterest because the company’s path to… Read more »
There is no other way to put it: 2014 was a huge year for the big data market. It seems years of talk about what’s possible are finally giving way to some… Read more »
Gigaom’s Structure Data conference is just three months away — March 18 and 19 in New York — and it’s looking like our fifth one will be the best one yet. The… Read more »
After initially mapping 8 million flood-related tweets throughout the region over the past couple years as part of a Twitter Data Grant, the University of Wollongong and a local emergency agency have developed a project called… Read more »
Twitter data editor Simon Rogers took the stage at Gigaom’s Roadmap conference to talk about making sense of messy data with good visualizations. It can be hard work, but also very… Read more »
Twitter has built a new search index that allows users to surface all public tweets since the service launched in 2006. At nearly half a trillion documents and a scale of… Read more »
Twitter and IBM have partnered on a deal that will integrate Twitter data into various IBM software products and cloud services, and will result in a new certification for 10,000 IBM… Read more »
Twitter has open sourced a tool that it uses to detect spikes in time-series data, in order to make sure it’s able to react to issues with its servers, applications or other systems… Read more »
Twitter recently open sourced an algorithm designed to ease the process of running recommendation engines at large scale. Called DIMSUM, the algorithm pre-processes pairs of possible matches so the other algorithms… Read more »