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 »
Treato, a startup based in Israel, uses big data analytics to unearth patient insights about drugs and medical conditions from thousands of online health communities. Read more »
The buzziest term of 2013 is ‘big data’ which originally meant large amounts of formerly inaccessible data, like what people are doing on their cell phones and personal devices while watching… Read more »
“Social customer service” refers to those services that provide customer support via social media channels. Providing such services is no longer merely a niche or specialty sideline. Challengers, or disruptors who… Read more »
A Stanford professor, Russ Altman, working with Microsoft, has created a new and faster way to discover drug side effects by analyzing search queries made in web browsers. This is a… 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 »