Analytics Team » social networking

Visualize your Facebook friends’ likes

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:54:49 +0000

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.

Social graph analysis reveals slumloard conspiracy

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:26:52 +0000

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.

The CIA mines Twitter and Facebook

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:55:55 +0000

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.

HP mines data to predict consumer behavior

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:14:23 +0000

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.

How data informs the design process at Facebook

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:11:04 +0000

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.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey says instrument everything

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:31:58 +0000

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.

Backtype social analytics platform

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:44:35 +0000

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.

Facebook Insights – realtime analytics

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:16:11 +0000

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.

Graph presentation from Hunch

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:21:48 +0000

Check out this presentation from Hunch.

graphs (by @cdixon and @hunch)

Rainbird, real-time analytics at Twitter

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:04:15 +0000

Rainbird: Realtime Analytics at Twitter (Strata 2011)

View more presentations from Kevin Weil.

And here is the Techcrunch commentary.