RavenPack Sentiment News: The Challenges of Social Media …

As we expand RavenPack’s coverage from regular news sources to social media, including Twitter, we face several complex challenges, including the unique language used by microbloggers; the problem of source reputation; issues related to security and abuse of accounts and, lastly, whether news actually breaks on Twitter versus news sites.

These challenges were some of the topics I discussed at a […]

Who needs Big Data scientists? Pretty soon, there'll be an app for …

With all the hype around Big Data, one of the most pressing concerns for organizations is finding qualified data scientists who’re able to translate that mish-mash of numbers into something that makes sense – actual insights that can be used to pursue businesses’ goals and strategies.The opportunities for data scientists are said to be enormous, mainly because there aren’t enough […]