Definitely Mozilla, since I already have experience buying from Amazon,
Apple, and Google. But it would have to be an open phone.
Owen Densmore wrote at 03/01/2013 08:49 PM:
So if you had to buy a phone from one of the following, which would you
choose?
- Amazon
- Apple
-
One of my projects is funded by NIH, and it sponsored (read: paid for) a
group of 15 of us software developer types from 10 different organizations
across the country who are working on the project to get together last week
in Las Vegas, NV to conduct a two-day hackathon. We split into three
Doug -
So the point is to attempt early detection of an outbreak of
something based on what people are tweeting?
( influenza, flu, cold, fever, H1N1, H3N2, sneezing,
aching, ache, achy, congested )
It certainly sounds like there might be some utility to it, but I'm
wondering what
Steve,
I guest the point of this exercise is to determine if there are search
correlations that can be teased out of (the incredibly dirty) twitter data
which can be used to produce meaningful studies.
Other people say they've used Twitter data to produce more accurate and/or
timely influenza
I twitched and accidentally sent a tad early...
I wanted to add links to Collecta http://collecta.com/ and ask the
question of whether anyone knows what happened to Google's RealTime
effort? it appears to be underground supporting Google's other services
like Trends
Yep, although who's to say that an onslaught of Nyquil twittertizing does
not signify the beginning of a flu outbreak?
--Doug
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
It also seems as if subtracting news items might be important (for your
purposes) since I assume
Doug:
I'm probably not clear on your objective, but are you folks aware of the
work the Guardian did a couple years back on mapping the riots in London in
real time using Tweets?
See
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2011/08/august-2011-london-riot-maps.html
=tom
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:33
I had heard about that study, Tom.
Our objective on this NIH-funded project is to conduct research on what
what infectious disease-related studies could be conducted using Twitter
data. Plenty of opportunities exist, a few of which (influenza outbreak
detection, for example) have already been
Doug -
Yep, although who's to say that an onslaught of Nyquil twittertizing
does not signify the beginning of a flu outbreak?
Righto! That is the point... how to distinguish a rash of NyQuil
fanbois extolling it's virtues in 140 chars or less as they subdue early
symptoms of a resurging
A rash of infectious disease tweets? Not going there.
The goal of our hackathon, in the spirit of true hackathoning:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon was to intensively collaborate
and pound out some working code of interest regarding our client's
programmatic areas. It was a good
And then there's this:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/03/04/1942235/white-house-urges-reversal-of-ban-on-cell-phone-unlocking
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.comwrote:
I was browsing google news came across a security bug in android and ios
but the
I don't use twitter myself. Seriously. Too narcissistic.
Seriously. I don't want anybody following me.
-Doug
On Mar 4, 2013 8:59 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
I've recently been thrust into Twitter:
- My new ISP/Hosting uses twitter for news updates and support.
- A bizarre
If you attempt to follow hashtags, the signal-to-noise ratio will be pretty
poor. Hashtag search is good if you are interested in a specific topic and you
don't necessarily know who will be talking about it. For example,
#overlyhonestmethods
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