While Tom Davenport poo-pooed Twitter data for serious analysis on the blog earlier in the week, the practice of analytics is always about finding the next great source of data that can yield meaningful insights. A study covered in the New York Times, used photographs (papparazzi, etc.) for sale to map “the geography of buzz” both in [...]
“Study twitter—there are lessons for businesses of all other forms.” ~ Tim O’Reilly at the Web 2.0 conference that just ended in San Francisco. It seems that one can’t have a conversation about almost anything these days without talking about Twitter. It’s the It app though it seems that there is a relatively small group [...]
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