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TWITTER HAS ANNOUNCED a new pilot project which will see a select number of academics and institutions gain free access to the company’s public and historical data.
The Data Grants scheme will allow the site to collaborate and help researchers who are tackling major issues and would benefit from analysing the millions of tweets posted daily.
The site, which sees more than 500 million tweets posted on it every day, has seen its data used for research in international relations, financial markets, natural disasters, journalism and politics. By providing access to this data, Twitter hopes that researchers can analyse and discover trends and developments through it.
Researchers will be able to collaborate with the site’s own researchers and engineers while Gnip, a social data company that Twitter is partnered with, will provide researchers with the necessary data. Any group that is interested in taking parts must submit proposals before 15 March.
Twitter announced its first earnings report last night after the company went public. It announced its monthly average users grew to 241 million, an increase of nine million from the previous quarter, but the slow growth in user numbers and a loss of $511 million saw its share price fall by 13 per cent.
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Over 90% of all information ever recorded by humanity is now digitised. Data Analytics – the analysis of all sorts of unimaginable trends from all of that data – is about to have a massive impact on every aspect of our lives.
Jim, is that you?
It is not possible to post a comment on the Journal.ie unless you link to a Facebook or Twitter account, which implicates the Journal as a facilitator of Facebook and Twitter as sources of data collection. I never do the Polls that are carried out on the Journal on almost a daily basis. Those Polls are used to do quantative analysis. The questions asked and the results obtained can be scewed to facilitate the researchers, (whoever they are). Giving your own written opinion on the reasons for answering either Yes, No, or Maybe; makes analysis more difficult. The researchers would then have to do qualitative analysis on your written opinion. Qualitative results are difficult to analyse and do not give clear cut results. The analysers of your data on Facebook, Twitter and the Journal.ie are Faceless drones who collect and collate information on behalf of whom?
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