social media monitoring Archives

2014-12-17
Social Media Syndromic Surveillance
The Public Health Agency of Sweden has an initiative called Hälsorapport, which is part of the European system Influenzanet, whose overall goal is “monitor the activity of influenza-like-illness (ILI) with the aid of volunteers via the internet.” The goal of Hälsorapport is similarly to monitor the spreading of diseases in Sweden and to inform the …

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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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2012-01-11
Positiveness Correlates with Holidays, Headache Correlates with New Year’s Day
We’ve previously seen that the aggregated overall positiveness of Swedes is cyclical on a weekly basis. Swedes love their days off. We’re now happy to asses what we’ve all suspected for a long time: during Christmas and New Year we all excel in positive thinking! Additionally, the image below reveals that, for some reason, Swedes …

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2011-11-14
Monitoring on-line social media for as-it-happens customer churn related to mobile network operators in the US
Churn is a measure of customers leaving a subscription-based service over time. In this post, we use Gavagai Monitor to demonstrate real-time monitoring of churn-propensity related to telecom services; characterize customer churn by means of annoyance, uncertainty, change, and negativity; identify and extract, in real time, the source documents provoking the churn for a service (in …

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2011-11-11
The Perry Oops and the impact on Perry Worry
US presidential primaries are a great spectator sport for those of us who do not need to actually cast our vote. The preceding week was no exception – and of course the sight of a presidential candidate fumbling the ball completely on camera was a rare sight. But how immediate was the damage, really? (For …

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2011-11-08
Tracking Swedish political sympathies in social media
This Fall has been more eventful than many in Swedish politics, in spite of no real political events taking place. The recently elected leader of the Social Democratic Workers’ Party has been tangled into a mess of possibly excessive and in any case overcompensated housing allowance remuneration. Our take: Centerpartiet is fading out of view …

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2011-11-02
Greece: Politics, Economics, and Rowdy Behaviour separated
Many of us are trying to keep track of what is going on in Greece these days. We will have reason to give you more news flashes of how events in Greece are being narrated and reported – here is a first peek at results from our ongoing monitor. This monitor is based on English-language …

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2011-10-27
Aversion towards Berlusconi reaches new high
We’ve monitored Silvio Berlusconi in English language social media for more than a year. In October, the aversion towards him reached a new high.

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2011-10-24
Gavagai performs Open Source Intelligence analysis of the threat level towards Sweden
Ten months ago, Taimour Abdulwahab set off a bomb in central Stockholm. The image below illustrates the weak signal Violence Propensity Index (VPI) related to Sweden that Gavagai picked up in the Swedish blogosphere between August 1, and December 21, 2010. Note that the suicide bombing in Stockholm is preceded by approximately 30 days of increased …

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