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Fourth DataSift Webinar Video, “Targets”

Did you miss our last Webinar, “Targets? Now you can watch the complete training session here!

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Fourth DataSift Webinar: Targets

The fourth Training Module of DataSift, “Targets”, is scheduled for this Friday 22nd July, 14:00 BST.

DataSift takes data streams from the most popular social media sites. Targets are the individual elements of information these streams offer. There’s almost no limit to the filtering you can perform. Sign up for the webinar and learn to filter by language, follower count, keywords, geographical location.… You can even filter by the sentiment of posts, positive or negative!

Third DataSift Webinar Video, “Operators”

Here you can watch the entire session of our Third Training Module, “Operators”, including a complete guide of all the possible Operators used in DataSift.

** Operators are functions within DataSift that form part of a Stream Definition. The Operator takes the value of the Target from the Input Object, runs its function against it with the specified Argument, and returns a result.

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Second DataSift Webinar Video

Did you miss our Second Webinar, “Getting Started”? Here you can watch the complete session!

Don’t forget that our next Training Module, “Operators”, is scheduled on the next Friday 8 of July.
Want to attend? Get registered right here!

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Banned Users

At present we are switching over our systems to our automated licensing engine. For a short period users who do not have an approved license will be banned if they try to access Twitter data. Please contact support@mediasift.com and we will un-ban you if you experience this problem.

In order to ensure that you do not get banned again please add the following CDSL code to your Streams, so that you do not access Twitter data:

Alternatively if you would like a license for Twitter data, please sign the license electronically at the “My Licenses” section of your User Dashboard. Then a member of our Sales Team will contact you, as you will need to complete a Beta Commercial Contract. This is a chargeable service.

First DataSift Webinar Video

As you know DataSift is scheduling a series of training programs through webinars. Here you can watch the first one we did, “Basic Concepts”, introducing a general overview of the Platform.

Our second webinar, “Getting Started” is scheduled on the next Friday, 24th June 2011. The invitations are limited, so hurry up and reserve your seat today right here!

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New Target for Random Sample

DataSift has a new Target for getting a random sample. If you want to test a  stream with a small samples or find out about a particular keyword in a random sample  then you can use the interaction.sample target in your stream definition.

The new target takes an input value in the range of 0.0 to 100.00. The input value is a floating point number and specifies the percentage of data you want to target.

For example:

The above example will target a random 10% of input feeds with the word “Apple”.

DataSift Webinars

Hello DataSift Users,

DataSift is scheduling a series of training programs through webinars. The first one is scheduled on the Friday,  3rd June, 2011. You can book for the webinar by clicking here.

Basic Concepts Webinar

The first webinar will introduce the Basic Concepts of DataSift. The interactive session will cover the following topics:

• What is DataSift?
• Advantages of DataSift
• CSDL Overview
• Targets
• Operators
• Geo Operators
• Using DataSift website
• User profiles
• Licensing
• Pricing models
• How to use DataSift
• Examples
• Q&A

Slides for DataSift- Basic Concepts.

Future Webinars:

• Training Module 2: Getting Started with DataSift
• Training Module 3: Operators
• Training Module 4: Targets
• Training Module 5: Creating Advanced Rules (including Optimisation tips)
• Training Module 6 : DataSift APIs
• Training Module 7: Using DataSift Streaming Service (HTTP Streaming and Websockets)
• Training Module 8: Output formats
• Training Module 9: Pricing Models
• Training Module 10: Data Visualisation

We will update the blog with future webinar Dates soon. If you have any Questions regarding DataSift please post your Questions here, we will try to answer them in our Webinars.

An Invitation: Java for DataSift

Are you a developer who is currently investigating DataSift and our offerings, well if you are and you use Java and are after a library for our API then you might just find this little project on GitHub by Ollie Parsley of interest. It’s not a complete library at this point but it does mean that you can branch it and get involved with shaping how this library ends up!  We’d like to get you the community involved in finishing it off and making it your own!  It should give you the opportunity to get to grips with our API’s and services at the same time!

We did consider waiting until the library was complete before putting it out there but thought on this occasion that it might be interesting to see how you would like this library to be and what you would like to see added to it, i.e. get the conversation going around best practice with our libraries.  Ollie will continue to work on it as well but we’d love to see some of you take the helm and show us what you want!

If you have created any source code that you feel others could use in their projects feel free to share your code on GitHub or similar and let us know!  We’ll start adding the links to these into our documentation area for all to find nice and easily!

All our documentation can be found in our Knowledge Base!

DataSift for Research: Examples in Action

Last week we gave a taster of how DataSift could potentially be used for research and we promised you that we would bring you a screencast to show exactly how powerful this tool can be for researchers!  If you’re wondering how we’re going to do that then just take a look as this screencast and it will all become clear!

In this screencast we run you through the depth of detail that you can access across our social streams as well as the range of rule options that you can use to access deep information.

Using our API you can do everything that you have seen in the screencast dynamically if you choose to and feed this data directly into your own reporting and research tools. You’ll find all the documentation that goes with our API in our Knowledge Base.

If you have any questions or are keen to get your hands on DataSift then do sign up to our Alpha Programme or get in touch with us directly if you have an immediate need for this service.