[twitter-dev] Re: master thesis related to Twitter
A small group of us (mainly Harvard students, but others as well) had similar questions a few months back and we've started digging into the research pretty heavily (also doing contracting/consulting). Our group is called the Web Ecology Project and we've released a handful of academic (but accessible and market relevant) papers about events and influence on Twitter. We also released some source code for identifying the language of Tweets using the Google API and python. We have a research relations arm and I've forwarded your contact information to our research coordinator Dharmishta who will probably be in touch soon. It might be worth looking over our papers. When you do, feel free to email me (or any of us) and ask questions. We've done some semantic analysis of tweets for our paper on the death of michael jackson and the response on Twitter using the ANEW method/dataset and NLTK. Our work can be found at http://webecologyproject.org and all of our stuff is released under a Creative Commons license so feel free to quote us and use bits where you need to. One of the hardest initial things that we encountered with Twitter was gathering and storing of useful and meaningful data but now we've gotten mostly past those issues and we are now starting to mine and analyze other social networks as well. Thanks, David Fisher Web Ecology Project On Sep 27, 8:11 pm, Stefna mstefa...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you all for the feedback. My main motivation for posting this thread was to gather some loose ideas. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, posting a link costs nothing but saved a lot of mine time. strict formed data - 140 chars, #tag, @username, RT etc. - that's why there are so many sites presenting graphs, charts, trends, tendencies etc. first pick was vaguely to analyse the semantic meaning of tweets - like take a tag, take all the words with tweets with this tag and on that base find tweets that might me related to the topic. Or finding and measuring tags that are in tweets with aforementioned one. I should keep in mind that my task is to present a satisfactory dissertation, not cure for cancer. And probably by the time I finish my work someone else will ship similar software independently. Nevertheless by creating it I will learn a lot of stuff about Twitter itself not to mention improving programming skills. On 27 Wrz, 20:38, Mitchel Berberich mitch...@mbsw.com wrote: Careful! Stefna was talking about semantic meaning. Not syntactic ... But I think you're right - Stefna, please us tell a bit more about the context. And - what do you think of when you say strict formed data? What exactly do you want to achieve? Maybe your promoter should tell you in more detail, what he expects from you? On Sep 27, 6:44 am, Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: Good luck buddy.. Btw I'm curious, What exactly are you referring to or focussing on when you say 'syntactic meaning of tweets' ? I mean I'd appreciate a clarification on 'syntactic meaning to whom ?' and 'syntactic meaning of tweets in what context ?' Just wondering.. Best Regards, Nalin On 9/25/09, Stefna mstefa...@gmail.com wrote: I've submitted a ticket with following content: *** *** *** I am a 23 years old student of informatics at AGH Universtity of Science and Technology in Cracow (Poland). Due to a rapid development, strict formed data and accessible API I would like to designate my master thesis to the Twitter related topic. My promoter is the PhD at the Department of Computer Linguistics and our first pick was vaguely to analyse the semantic meaning of tweets. Do you have suggestions about the dissertation topic? Do you have any pending requests or prospect features you want to develop? I will browse known issues, I will think thoroughly about the topic but still - your suggestion might be very helpful. Even the shortest one (like good luck) will encourage me to more intensive research. *** *** *** Does anyone have any suggestions? My ticket has a six-digit number so I'm afraid I won't get any answer :) I'll probably ask for help during my work so I subscribe to this group anyway. Thanks in advance! -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
[twitter-dev] Re: master thesis related to Twitter
Careful! Stefna was talking about semantic meaning. Not syntactic ... But I think you're right - Stefna, please us tell a bit more about the context. And - what do you think of when you say strict formed data? What exactly do you want to achieve? Maybe your promoter should tell you in more detail, what he expects from you? On Sep 27, 6:44 am, Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: Good luck buddy.. Btw I'm curious, What exactly are you referring to or focussing on when you say 'syntactic meaning of tweets' ? I mean I'd appreciate a clarification on 'syntactic meaning to whom ?' and 'syntactic meaning of tweets in what context ?' Just wondering.. Best Regards, Nalin On 9/25/09, Stefna mstefa...@gmail.com wrote: I've submitted a ticket with following content: *** *** *** I am a 23 years old student of informatics at AGH Universtity of Science and Technology in Cracow (Poland). Due to a rapid development, strict formed data and accessible API I would like to designate my master thesis to the Twitter related topic. My promoter is the PhD at the Department of Computer Linguistics and our first pick was vaguely to analyse the semantic meaning of tweets. Do you have suggestions about the dissertation topic? Do you have any pending requests or prospect features you want to develop? I will browse known issues, I will think thoroughly about the topic but still - your suggestion might be very helpful. Even the shortest one (like good luck) will encourage me to more intensive research. *** *** *** Does anyone have any suggestions? My ticket has a six-digit number so I'm afraid I won't get any answer :) I'll probably ask for help during my work so I subscribe to this group anyway. Thanks in advance! -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
[twitter-dev] Re: master thesis related to Twitter
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Stefna mstefa...@gmail.com wrote: strict formed data - 140 chars, #tag, @username, RT etc. - that's why there are so many sites presenting graphs, charts, trends, tendencies etc. I suspect a large part of the answer to that is simply Because they can. Unlike other large social networks, the data in Twitter is open by default. I say this partly because I realized that's what grabbed me about Twitter, much more than the service itself. I was attracted to the fact that a lot of social data was easily accessible. I'm curious if anyone can cite a similarly open, large social network (are there any?) that hasn't seen much third-party analysis and such. Nick
[twitter-dev] Re: master thesis related to Twitter
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/twitter-hashtags/9419/ On Sep 25, 1:46 pm, Kevin Mesiab ke...@mesiablabs.com wrote: Good luck and I look forward to reading some drafts, yeah? On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Stefna mstefa...@gmail.com wrote: I've submitted a ticket with following content: *** *** *** I am a 23 years old student of informatics at AGH Universtity of Science and Technology in Cracow (Poland). Due to a rapid development, strict formed data and accessible API I would like to designate my master thesis to the Twitter related topic. My promoter is the PhD at the Department of Computer Linguistics and our first pick was vaguely to analyse the semantic meaning of tweets. Do you have suggestions about the dissertation topic? Do you have any pending requests or prospect features you want to develop? I will browse known issues, I will think thoroughly about the topic but still - your suggestion might be very helpful. Even the shortest one (like good luck) will encourage me to more intensive research. *** *** *** Does anyone have any suggestions? My ticket has a six-digit number so I'm afraid I won't get any answer :) I'll probably ask for help during my work so I subscribe to this group anyway. Thanks in advance! -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C.http://twitter.com/kmesiabhttp://mesiablabs.comhttp://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: master thesis related to Twitter
Good luck buddy.. Btw I'm curious, What exactly are you referring to or focussing on when you say 'syntactic meaning of tweets' ? I mean I'd appreciate a clarification on 'syntactic meaning to whom ?' and 'syntactic meaning of tweets in what context ?' Just wondering.. Best Regards, Nalin On 9/25/09, Stefna mstefa...@gmail.com wrote: I've submitted a ticket with following content: *** *** *** I am a 23 years old student of informatics at AGH Universtity of Science and Technology in Cracow (Poland). Due to a rapid development, strict formed data and accessible API I would like to designate my master thesis to the Twitter related topic. My promoter is the PhD at the Department of Computer Linguistics and our first pick was vaguely to analyse the semantic meaning of tweets. Do you have suggestions about the dissertation topic? Do you have any pending requests or prospect features you want to develop? I will browse known issues, I will think thoroughly about the topic but still - your suggestion might be very helpful. Even the shortest one (like good luck) will encourage me to more intensive research. *** *** *** Does anyone have any suggestions? My ticket has a six-digit number so I'm afraid I won't get any answer :) I'll probably ask for help during my work so I subscribe to this group anyway. Thanks in advance! -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com
[twitter-dev] Re: master thesis related to Twitter
Good luck and I look forward to reading some drafts, yeah? On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Stefna mstefa...@gmail.com wrote: I've submitted a ticket with following content: *** *** *** I am a 23 years old student of informatics at AGH Universtity of Science and Technology in Cracow (Poland). Due to a rapid development, strict formed data and accessible API I would like to designate my master thesis to the Twitter related topic. My promoter is the PhD at the Department of Computer Linguistics and our first pick was vaguely to analyse the semantic meaning of tweets. Do you have suggestions about the dissertation topic? Do you have any pending requests or prospect features you want to develop? I will browse known issues, I will think thoroughly about the topic but still - your suggestion might be very helpful. Even the shortest one (like good luck) will encourage me to more intensive research. *** *** *** Does anyone have any suggestions? My ticket has a six-digit number so I'm afraid I won't get any answer :) I'll probably ask for help during my work so I subscribe to this group anyway. Thanks in advance! -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
