Mining tweets for illness-related complaints can tell us what restaurants to avoid when. Twitter isn't as much a micro-blogging site anymore as it is a data pool. It can tell us what's happening during an emergency, how people are feeling about national news events, and even the difference between a geek and a nerd. Mined for the right keywords, it can also tell you where people are getting sick. As a post doc at the University of Rochester, Adam Sadilek, now a data scientist for Google, built n...
Mining tweets for illness-related complaints can tell us what restaurants to avoid when. Twitter isn't as much a micro-blogging site anymore as it is a data pool. It can tell us what's happening during an emergency, how people are feeling about national news events, and even the difference between a geek and a nerd. Mined for the right keywords, it can also tell you where people are getting sick. As a post doc at the University of Rochester, Adam Sadilek, now a data scientist for Google, built n...
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