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 »
Two news stories from Wednesday — one about a startup trying to play data broker between user and website and another about a study into what people would charge for their personal data… Read more »
Twitter has released an analysis of activity on the social network during the overtime shootout period in last week’s World Cup match between Brazil and Chile. The pattern, which Twitter claims… Read more »
Following on the heels of Apple buying Topsy, fellow Twitter-specialist DataSift has announced a $42 million round of venture capital financing. Read more »
Yelp has announced the winners of its inaugural Yelp Dataset Challenge, and the four entries it chose actually seem pretty useful. They run the gamut from a technique to highlight key… Read more »
Yelp released a new tool called Wordmap that maps the volume of certain terms with popular Yelp cities. I used it to find out how strongly hipsters, frat boys and PBR… Read more »
With its acquisition of Lucky Sort, Twitter seems to be acknowledging that it’s a data company after all. The plan appears to be building a services that would do for Twitter… Read more »
Facebook Director of Engineering Lars Rasmussen held an Ask Me Anything session of Reddit on Thursday to talk about Graph Search. Here’s what he had to say about the infrastructure underlying… Read more »