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Twitter Flies by Hadoop on Search Quest
A recent Twitter-published scientific paper details the social network's journey through their previously existing Hadoop infrastructure to a custom combined infrastructure. This connects the HDFS to a frontend cache (to deal with queries and responses) and a backend (which houses algorithms that rank relevance). Read more…
The Algorithmic Magic of Trendspotting
Trendspotting is big business for social networks and large-scale business alike. To tap into how code is woven into a trend-aware fabric, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis explains how the masters of all trend-watching algos, the experts at Twitter, conjure up... Read more…
What Sociologists Say About Big Data
Social science has already found results regarding the internet and the people who use it which would be useful to big data research. The major finding they cite is that British researchers from Reuters and the Oxford Internet Institute have found that social media has established itself as the “Fifth Estate”... Read more…
The Political Intrigue of Big Social Data
The value of social media in politics has certainly not been questioned in recent years as governments and individual candidates attempt to turn the social swells in their favor. For startups like Silicon Valley-based SocialMatica, however.... Read more…
IBM, USC Tackle Major League Data
IBM and the University of California's Annenberg Innovation Lab are taking baseball insights to the next level using social media analytics to gauge sentiment. Read more…
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