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Ignite DC #7

Ted Stein

Data mining twitter, open source

The recent revolutions in the Arab world have created a new interest in how people use twitter and social media to communicate. The CIA, data miners, and marketing departments for large corporations have long had access to sophisticated data mining software. I wrote an open source version that puts that power in the hands of the people.

http://drupal.org/project/twitterminer

I would like to walk the audience through a few data visualizations showing hundreds of thousands of tweets from the revolutions in Libya and Egypt (analysis by the super talented R-Shief project*), as well as a discussion on the implications of open source social data mining.

• http://r-shief.org

About Ted Stein:

Ted Stein is an open source contributor, the president of Inner File Software, and the founder of the Center for Torture Accountability. Mr. Stein is passionate about innovative uses of software to achieve social justice.