O’Reilly Radar’s visualization of the week is one by Tony Hirst showing all of your Facebook friends’ likes. The best part is he tells you exactly how to do it using Gephi and Google Refine.
Jan 07
Check out this Boing Boing post to see how a social graph analysis from OrgNet shows that slumlords work together to avoid maintenance on the buildings they buy and sell.
Nov 05
It’s not surprising but, the CIA is mining the full stream of Twitter and Facebook messages from a special facility they’ve set up in Virginia. Read the details.
Oct 29
Here’s an Information Week article talking about how HP used data mining to predict consumer behavior. The project was completed by HP Labs and HP Global Customer Intelligence.
Oct 29
Here’s a great video of Adam Mosseri, a designer from Facebook, talking about how Facebook uses data in the design decision making process.
And here’s a recap of the talk from Kissmetrics.
Mar 27
VentureBeat has a short video of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey reminding us of the importance of instrumentation. Tracking and analytics are often an afterthought. Dorsey says do it first and make the data and analytics a product.
Mar 11
San Francisco startup, Backtype, launched their social analytics platform. They say they have a real-time, high tech stream data processing system that goes beyond what Facebook and Twitter have. They call it ElephantDB. Read the Techcrunch article and also check out the Backtype tech blog for info on their architecture.
Here’s an article from O’reilly Radar about Backtype and other social analytics companies.
Mar 10
Mashable reports that Facebook’s Insight tool for publishers of Facebook plugins has received extensive updates. The updates allow publishers to now get realtime info on how their stuff is performing on Facebook.
Feb 26
Check out this presentation from Hunch.
graphs (by @cdixon and @hunch)
Feb 05
And here is the Techcrunch commentary.
