Monthly Archives: September 2012

Video Lecture: Twitter Social Network by @aneeshs

Learn about weak ties, triadic closures, and personal pagerank, and how they all relate to the Twitter social graph from Aneesh Sharma: http://youtu.be/_eWDR3P8Lhw I especially enjoyed his fascinating and clear explanation of the Watts-Strogatz model, its link to Kleinberg’s model, … Continue reading

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Video Lecture: Splunk’s Software Architecture and GUI for Analyzing Twitter Data

Today we learned about an alternative software architecture for processing large data, getting the technical details from Splunk’s VP of Engineering, Stephen Sorkin. Splunk also has a really amazing GUI for analyzing Twitter and other data sources in real time; … Continue reading

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Video Lecture: Real-Time Twitter Search by @larsonite

Brian Larson gives a brilliant technical talk about how real-time search works at Twitter; He really knows what he’s talking about given that he’s the tech lead for search and relevance at Twitter! http://youtu.be/PAYOjnLICo4 Follow him @larsonite to learn more. … Continue reading

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Video Lecture: Kostas T. on How To Detect Twitter Trends

Have you ever wondered how Twitter computes its Trending Topics?  Kostas T. is one of the wizards behind that, and today he shared some of the secrets with our class: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duHxpSTmwW0 See his lecture notes.  Kostas, Rion and I are … Continue reading

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Slides Posted: Coding to the Twitter API

Today Rion Snow saved us huge amounts of time by giving us a primo introduction to the Twitter API.  We learned about both the RESTful API and the streaming API for both Java and Python. After this intro, it looks … Continue reading

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Video Lecture: Jon Coveney (@jco) on Apache Pig

Jon Coveney gives an in-depth tutorial on Apache Pig, including how it interacts with Hadoop: http://youtu.be/UiIjEzW3br8 His slides are a fantastic resource for learning much much more about Pig: (pdf) Thanks for a really illuminating lecture, Jon!

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