Hey NuPIC, Hey Cortical.io
After this devastating night with the disturbing and also a bit awakening events in Paris, I would like to ask for people to join me on a small and probably naive idea: The cortical.io team has submitted a twitter monitoring service for elections, there has been a hack on the hackaton in NY for monitoring news and indicating anomalies in them, and now I would like to see if we can find indications for the terror-attacks in Paris in Social media. Twitter, news and "underground" platforms like 4chan are maybe good places to start. I was thinking about monitoring the schemantics and numbers of posts containing keywords related to terrorism and hatred. I was hoping for sb from cortical.io and others to help trying to see if there are indications in Social media before the events, so anomalies in posts and activities which may have been used to warn and/or find individuals who are causing these anomalous behavior. I know this may sound naive (I know it is) but I think it's worth the try! Maybe this Leeds us to a warning tool for terrorism, which would be incredibly helpful to us. I hope for feedback and ideas here! PS: I hope you had a great rest time yesterday night :) Best, Pascal ____________________________ BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD ...
