ethersource Archives

2012-09-07
- ethersource
- social media monitoring
Big Data & Predictive Modeling – What’s happening in Stockholm
We presented “Understanding and Big Data: Ethersource as the Semantic Processing Layer in the Big Data Stack” at yesterday’s meet-up on the topic “Big Data & Predictive Modeling – What’s happening in Stockholm”. It was a great event, spawning interesting discussions with bright people. Thank you Mikael at Klarna for organizing the meet-up!

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2012-08-29
What Ethersource has Learned About Al-Qaeda in the Past Few Days
This post gives examples of Ethersource’s learning capabilities. It gives examples of automatically learned topics and senses of the use of the term Al-Qaeda in English social media. Ethersource is continuously exposed to massive text streams. On a given day, it sees millions of blog posts, tweets, and forum posts. And it learns. It gobbles …

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2012-08-17
The Severity of the Assange Affair Reaches Year High
Yesterday marked a year high in the number of people airing their concerns regarding Assange in terms of aggression, either toward Assange himself, the Swedish judicial system, or the possible intervention of the UK Government in order to extradict Assange to Sweden. The graph below illustrates that the steep rise in volume during the past …

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2012-06-01
Everyday racism in the Swedish blogosphere
We use Ethersource to monitor usage of racist terminology in the Swedish blogosphere. We find that one of the largest demographic groups to use such terminology is young female bloggers. We demonstrate how we are able to cluster and profile users of racist terminology. One of the many benefits of Ethersource is that it is …

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2012-05-22
Measuring the popularity of the contestants in the Eurovision Song Contest using Twitter
In this post, we confirm that Loreen is well placed to win the popular vote in the Eurovision Song Contest final 2012. We use Twitter to measure the popularity of the contestants in ESC 2012. When scaling with Twitter penetration, Sweden gets the highest relative popularity score. This is in line with current betting odds, …

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2012-04-18
Weak signal synonym detection (in Swedish)
As we have previously discussed on this blog, Ethersource constantly and continuously learns new terminology by reading what is written on the Internet. As an example of how Ethersource picks up even weak linguistic signals, we noticed recently that Ethersource suggested the word “tutilurfräs” as a very positive Swedish term. None of us had ever …

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2012-03-12
A Minute-by-minute Popularity Contest – Loreen versus Danny
Despite the fact that the Swedish part of the Eurovision Song Contest final was broadcast live, as a TV viewer it was impossible to get a sense of just how popular the artists were at a given point in time. Having access to Ethersource made sifting out meaningful blog posts and Tweets in real-time a …

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2012-03-11
Fabulous Fest Forecast by Gavagai
Sweden’s contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest this year has been decided in yesterday’s finale with ten contestants. The winner of 2012 year’s Swedish music fest Melodifestivalen is Loreen, with the song “Euphoria”, which landed almost 700000 call-in votes from the at-home TV audience. Using the Ethersource technology, Gavagai followed the on-line sentiment towards all contestants throughout …

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2012-02-22
On-line Activities Indicate Increasing Flu Trend.
Swedish bloggers and tweeters are increasingly chattering about seasonal influenza (also covered in an earlier blog post). The trend of the flu signals captured by the Ethersource barometer is clearly on the rise. This should come as no surprise since we are, in fact, looking at the seasonal flu. The interesting thing here is how …

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2012-02-14
Hyperdimensionality, semantic singularity, and concentration of distances
This post digs a bit deeper into Ethersource. We discuss the problems of distance concentration and semantic singularity. We argue that Ethersource is not susceptible to these problems. As we have previously discussed in this blog, the number of unique words in social media grows at a rate that far exceeds what we are normally …

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