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Surprising Stats From Mining One Million Tweets About #Syria
Posted on September 9, 2013 12 Comments
I’ve been filtering Twitter’s firehose for tweets about “#Syria” for about the past week in order to accumulate a sizable volume of data about an important current event. As of Friday, I noticed that the tally has surpassed one million tweets, so it seemed to be a good time to apply some techniques from Mining […]
What Are People Tweeting About #Syria in Your Neck of the Woods?
Posted on September 4, 2013 2 Comments
Update: Sept 9, 2013 – View Surprising Stats From Mining One Million Tweets About #Syria for a more comprehensive analysis of content in this post. In the opening chapter of Mining the Social Web, 2nd Edition we begin the journey into mining social data by way of Twitter. To paraphrase some of the content from an […]
