by Benson Agoha
Twitter has moved to support research by granting access to its data base to selected research groups from around the world.
It follows after Twitter agreed to acquire Gnip, a social data provider that help make it easier for organisations to realize the benefits of anaylyzing data across every public Tweet.
Some of Gnip's area's of specialization include providing real-time products by way of data. Their theme is "The Data You Need, The Moment You Need It".
In addition to that the Gnip also provides historial information that helps organisation go back in time by offering a number of Historical products that give organisations complete, enterprise-grade access to the full archive of public Twitter data.
Whether you need instant access to analyze a trending topic or have a long-term research project that needs years of data, Gnip provides the historical data organsations need, so it was understandable that their romance went back four years.
But making Twiters archive available to privileged organiations is happening for the first time and the choice of Harvard as one of the few is not surprising.
According to the Harvard Crimson, Researchers from the Harvard Medical School, whose project is being led by Associate Professor of Pediatrics John S. Brownstein, is the only one focused on disease detection.
Harvard announcement said "As one of the inaugural recipients of a Twitter Data Grant, a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital will study new methods of detecting outbreaks of foodborne illness."
The Harvard project builds on a growing branch of public health that uses Internet data to help detect and prevent disease outbreaks, Harvard said and researchers have combed a number of data sets—Google and Wikipedia searches, Facebook likes, and Yelp reviews—for indicators that can inform disease detection.
It is not clear who the other five benefactors of the privileged access to Twitter's archive are but 'Foodborne Chicago', a project which automatically sends the city public health complaint form to Twitter users who mention possible symptoms, is thought to be among them.
Gnip is excited about the marriage to Twitter, saying combining forces with the microblogging platform will allows it to go 'much faster and much deeper' and will enable them "to support a broader set of use cases across a diverse set of users including brands, universities, agencies, and developers big and small".
"This acquisition signals clear recognition that investments in social data are healthier than ever." Gnip said.
* Twitter: @woolwichonline.
Twitter has moved to support research by granting access to its data base to selected research groups from around the world.
It follows after Twitter agreed to acquire Gnip, a social data provider that help make it easier for organisations to realize the benefits of anaylyzing data across every public Tweet.
Some of Gnip's area's of specialization include providing real-time products by way of data. Their theme is "The Data You Need, The Moment You Need It".
In addition to that the Gnip also provides historial information that helps organisation go back in time by offering a number of Historical products that give organisations complete, enterprise-grade access to the full archive of public Twitter data.
Whether you need instant access to analyze a trending topic or have a long-term research project that needs years of data, Gnip provides the historical data organsations need, so it was understandable that their romance went back four years.
But making Twiters archive available to privileged organiations is happening for the first time and the choice of Harvard as one of the few is not surprising.
According to the Harvard Crimson, Researchers from the Harvard Medical School, whose project is being led by Associate Professor of Pediatrics John S. Brownstein, is the only one focused on disease detection.
Harvard announcement said "As one of the inaugural recipients of a Twitter Data Grant, a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital will study new methods of detecting outbreaks of foodborne illness."
The Harvard project builds on a growing branch of public health that uses Internet data to help detect and prevent disease outbreaks, Harvard said and researchers have combed a number of data sets—Google and Wikipedia searches, Facebook likes, and Yelp reviews—for indicators that can inform disease detection.
It is not clear who the other five benefactors of the privileged access to Twitter's archive are but 'Foodborne Chicago', a project which automatically sends the city public health complaint form to Twitter users who mention possible symptoms, is thought to be among them.
Gnip is excited about the marriage to Twitter, saying combining forces with the microblogging platform will allows it to go 'much faster and much deeper' and will enable them "to support a broader set of use cases across a diverse set of users including brands, universities, agencies, and developers big and small".
"This acquisition signals clear recognition that investments in social data are healthier than ever." Gnip said.
* Twitter: @woolwichonline.
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