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Social data science: How much are 1000 words really worth?

Rebecca Stone 11th June 2013 0 Comments

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth 1,000 words. After seeing some of the visualization projects that our data science team has been working on in anticipation of today’s announcements regarding managed data sources and our Tableau partnership, I can confirm that the old adage holds true. One of the projects that I thought demonstrated the true power of social data analysis and visualization explored the connection between Facebook Pages, Instagram and the release of some of this year’s biggest movies.

Introducing DataSift Carrier Pigeon Delivery

Tim Barker 1st April 2013 3 Comments

As a big data platform for social data, we’re always looking for new ways we can innovate to extend our platform to make it easier for companies to filter and receive social data from us. Today we’re proud to announce a new service available today to our customers: DataSift Carrier Pigeon Delivery.

DataSift + bitly: Measuring the missing metric in social engagement

Tim Barker 15th November 2012 3 Comments

As a Big Data platform for social, we’re continually working on how we can extend the value of insights that companies can derive from social data. Today we’re excited to announce our resyndication partnership with bitly (you can read the full announcement here) – bringing the social clickstream into our platform and integrating it to enable entirely new ways to analyze and act on social data insights.

Banned Users

Agustin Mingorance 22nd June 2011 1 Comment

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…

Changes to the API

Nick Halstead 26th May 2011 0 Comments

We will be very soon making some changes to our core API and I wanted to to explain why we were making them. One of the first things we built for DataSift was the REST API – this was based upon the code from TweetMeme which had served us so well (it still servers 10,000′s of requests per second). We designed the API based upon a lot of assumptions back then and with hindsight they…

Updates to the CDSL

Daniel Saxil-Nielsen 11th March 2011 2 Comments

We have been working hard over the last few weeks to improve our filtering engine, in both efficiency and with new features. Firstly, lets cover the differences between the last iteration of the CDSL and this new version. Changes to CONTAINS operator We have a new more efficient way of searching for keywords and/or phrases that now replaces the old implementations of CONTAINS, CONTAINS_WORD & CONTAINS_PHRASE operators, and has merged them into a single CONTAINS…

DataSift – Tuning the Social Web

Nick Halstead 12th August 2010 0 Comments

Since I started the company I had one goal in mind, to build technology that helped customers sift through the massive volume of content that the online world was generating. We have helped shape the social web with the collecting of social signals through our Retweet Button and built both consumer and business products based upon that data. Today we are previewing a new product which will shape the future of content curation. DataSift builds…