One of the most frustrating aspects of dealing with larger companies is the customer service experience. Whether it’s being caught in a game of customer service hot potato (“Please wait while we transfer you for the 8th time”) or being told “I’m sorry we can’t do that, company policy” it can permanently ruin a customer’s relationship with a company.
The first-ever Youth Winter Olympic Games wrapped up in Innsbruck, Austria on Sunday and a big part of the games had nothing to do with race times or medals. Instead, social media was embraced as a mandatory element of games-time participation for athletes and other accredited participants. Unlike previous games, where rights-holding broadcasters and a limited amount of accredited reporters from traditional media outlets were allowed to write and publish pictures about the games, this time around the athletes, volunteers, spectators and officials were encouraged to use social media during the games,
Crowdsourced data can often be inconsistent, messy or downright wrong We all like something for nothing, that’s why open source software is so popular. (It’s also why the Pirate Bay exists). But sometimes things that seem too good to be true are just that. Repustate is in the text analytics game which means we needs lots and lots of data to model certain characteristics of written text.
Arabic sentiment analysis is here. Repustate has always had a mindset of not resting on our laurels. We’re constantly improving, always iterating, and in an endless pursuit of the best software solutions we can produce. Today is the culmination of our latest efforts: Arabic sentiment analysis. Starting today, customers of our paid plans can analyze their Arabic social media data just as they can analyze English data.
A lot of interesting things … and some not so interesting things. I’ve been reading a lot of Facebook status updates over the past week or two, trying to get a good grip on the kinds of things people talk about on Facebook and how Repustate can leverage this avalanche of data.
Often times you have to interact with programs that require passwords or some other input from the user. For security purposes, some programs will not read from stdin so you have to be creative. Enter "expect". Expect is a program written in Tcl that allows you to mimic a conversation you’d have with any number of programs.
There’s more to Google Instant than ajax. It’s the n-grams, stupid. With the release of Google Instant, developers everywhere have sprung into action developing their own version of Instant for their favourite web service. This avalanche of development was undoubtedly spurred on by one developer’s job offer from YouTube based on his YouTube Instant work.
Jul 29, 2011
Repustate Team