Category Archives: Sentiment Analysis
What the end of the Twitter-DataSift partnership means for customers
Disclosures Let’s get this out of the way right up front. DataSift is a client of mine at Altimeter Group. I am closely connected to Twitter via my role as a board member of the Big Boulder Initiative, of which … Continue reading
Data Diary: Five things we can learn from the Super Bowl
(Note: this is a longish one, but you’ll be able to read it in 20 percent of the time it would take you to heat up more Totino’s Pizza Rolls.*) Personally, I don’t care much for football; my significant other … Continue reading
Social Data for Social Good: Five Lessons from Academia
In business, we spend a lot of time trying to understand social data and other forms of big data for strategic advantage: to make business decisions, increase revenue, reduce costs, improve relationships with customers and spur innovation. But what about … Continue reading
Superbowl Ads and Social Data: Where’s the End Zone?
Let me preface this by admitting that I’m not an American football fan. Sorry. But I do love the window-dressing of the Superbowl: the inane commentary, the screams of joy and agony from the living room (and neighboring houses), the … Continue reading
Social Data Market Momentum: It’s Not About the Firehose
In the past year, social data has continued to wend its way into organizations of all types, from large enterprise to small business to media and entertainment and the public sector. We’ve seen use cases far past marketing into product … Continue reading
Facebook Opens its Data API to (Some) Media Partners
Today, Facebook made an announcement that should interest anyone who uses social data. Effective immediately, Facebook will be opening its data API to a select group of media partners. According to today’s blog post, organizations that are part of this … Continue reading
Binders Full of Women: When a Meme Hijacks Your Brand
During the second Presidential debate this week, it only took a few moments for a social media/community manager named Veronica De Souza to claim the URL bindersfullofwomen.tumblr.com. Not long after, YouTube exploded with parody videos. All of this is to … Continue reading
Does the Social Web Perpetuate or Expose Disinformation?
I woke up Sunday morning to a tempest on Twitter. Apparently, Bill Keller of the New York Times had published an op-ed defending Wikileaks. It was retweeted by none other than Jeff Jarvis, Dan Gillmor and Nick Bilton–some of the … Continue reading
Thought Experiments 