With the launch of our Social API a little over a month ago, Repustate now allows its customers to create rules to monitor social media, all without ever leaving the confines of your favourite programming environment. But the piece that was missing was the ability to get various statistics and reports about your data sources.
Is it too much to ask marketers to prove they know what they’re doing? Being an engineer in a company full of engineers, I’ve grown accustomed to a particular world view. Specifically, that all things in life can and should be measured. Now of course, I don’t really think all things can be measured.
Chinese sentiment analysis is now part of the Repustate API We are very proud to announce our new Chinese sentiment analysis engine. Based on the same engine that we used to create our world-leading Arabic sentiment analysis engine, the Chinese sentiment analysis engine is blazingly fast and accurate. Conditional Random Fields Unlike English or Latin-based languages, Chinese (simplified) doesn’t necessarily disambiguate words using whitespace.
Python requests encoding - using the Python requests module might give you surprising results If you do anything remotely related to HTTP and use Python, then you’re probably using requests, the amazing library by Kenneth Reitz. It’s to Python HTTP programming what jQuery is to Javascript DOM manipulation - once you use it, you wonder how you ever did without it.
Some may question the price, but this deal is a win-win for all involved Much has been made of the recent acquisition of Radian6, a New Brunswick based social media monitoring company by Salesforce, the CRM-in-the-sky giant. Some have derided the acquisition as being a foolish one on behalf of Salesforce.
Facebook filed papers for an initial public offering on Wednesday that is expected to be the biggest offering to come from a Silicon Valley company and one of the biggest in the history of American business. The eight-year-old social media company filed the papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with a preliminary goal to raise $5 billion, with a company valuation of $75 to 100 billion.
Need an Arabic part of speech tagger (AKA an Arabic POS Tagger)? How about German or Italian? You’re in luck - Repustate’s internal POS taggers have been opened up via our API to give our developers the ability to slice and dice multilingual text the way we do. The documentation for the POS tagger API call outlines all you need to know to get started.
Jul 14, 2015
Repustate Team