Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

how to get twitter data

Sunday, September 29th, 2019

http://www.storybench.org/get-twitter-data-rtweet-r/

how to tweet a brain emoji

Monday, December 24th, 2018

•Click to ‘compose a new tweet’
•Right (R) upper hand corner see emoji icon
•Click on it = find all available emoji by scrolling

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from
https://twitter.com/cmkhealthatwork/status/1073903636982444032

A brief history of data science

Saturday, September 22nd, 2018

https://twitter.com/YaleData/status/1043196384403443712

overview of the GPCR literature as indexed on Wikidata

Friday, February 9th, 2018

https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/status/960633150115282944
Here’s an overview of the GPCR literature as indexed on Wikidata: https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/topic/Q38173

Twitter CEO finally explains why random favorites are inserted into your timeline – The Verge

Sunday, December 17th, 2017

https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/3/6101407/twitter-ceo-finally-explains-why-random-favorites-are-inserted-into

Spurious Correlations

Monday, January 25th, 2016

.@fionabrinkman @BioMickWatson @iddux Spurious Correlations
(http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations) related to Stat Frankenstein (https://twitter.com/markgerstein/status/689478730343837696)

Banjo Raises $100 Million to Detect World Events in Real Time

Saturday, May 9th, 2015

Banjo Raises $100 Million to Detect World Events in Real Time http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/05/06/banjo-raises-100-million-to-detect-world-events-in-real-time Will their global "crystal ball" notice this tweet?

A tool to easily edit DNA transforms research, holds potential for medicine – The Boston Globe

Thursday, January 1st, 2015

A tool to easily edit DNA transforms research, holds potential for medicine – The Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/30/tool-easily-edit-dna-transforms-research-holds-potential-for-medicine/X7srGGFardarsWBfCqEL2H/story.html

The technique has become so ubiquitous that it has entered the casual vernacular of science as a verb; people talking about “CRISPRing” genes they want to tweak or delete.

Twitter “Exhaust” Reveals Patterns of Unemployment | MIT Technology Review

Monday, December 1st, 2014

Social media fingerprints of unemployment, from detecting network components in tweet mining arxiv.org/abs/1411.3140 +
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/532746/twitter-exhaust-reveals-patterns-of-unemployment

Lots of press for an arxiv paper, viz:
Twitter “Exhaust” Reveals Patterns of Unemployment | MIT Technology Review

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So the team analysed the rate at which messages were exchanged between regions using a standard community detection algorithm. This revealed 340 independent areas of economic activity, which largely coincide with other measures of geographic and economic distribution. “This result shows that the mobility detected from geolocated tweets and the communities obtained are a good description of economical areas,” they say.

Finally, they looked at the unemployment figures in each of these regions and then mined their database for correlations with twitter activity.

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1309.6001 Co-evolutionary dynamics in social networks: A case study of Twitter

Friday, September 19th, 2014

http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6001