2015 Apr Software

• HappyGrumpy – Free Twitter Sentiment Analysis and Data - Apr 24, 2015.
  HappyGrumpy has made available interesting data of Twitter sentiment changes and sentiment distribution around the world, by country, and over time.

  Sentiment Analysis, Twitter

• Top 10 R Packages to be a Kaggle Champion - Apr 21, 2015.
  Kaggle top ranker Xavier Conort shares insights on the “10 R Packages to Win Kaggle Competitions”.

  Kaggle, R Packages, random forests algorithm, Success, SVM, Text Analysis, Xavier Conort

• Algorithmia Tested: Human vs Automated Tag Generation - Apr 21, 2015.
  Algorithmia, the marketplace for algorithms, can be a platform for hosting APIs to do a plethora of text analytics and information retrieval tasks. Automatic post tagging is done in this case study to demonstrate the effectiveness and ease-of-use of the platform.

  Algorithmia, API, Grant Marshall, Information Retrieval, Python, Text Analytics

• Linkurious Enterprise democratizes graph visualization - Apr 20, 2015.
  Linkurious announces the launch of Linkurious Enterprise, the first data visualization platform for graph databases.

  Graph Visualization, Linkurious, Neo4j, Security, Social Network Analysis

• Algorithmia: Building a web site explorer in 5 easy steps - Apr 20, 2015.
  We show how to use Algorithmia for quickly building a functional web site explorer in 5 steps: GetLinks, PageRank, Url2text, Summarizer and AutoTag.

  Algorithmia, API, Page Rank, Search Engine, Web Mining

• Math of Ideas: A Word is Worth a Thousand Vectors - Apr 16, 2015.
  Word vectors give us a simple and flexible platform for understanding text, there are a few diverse examples that should help build your confidence in developing and deploying NLP systems and what problems they can solve.

  NLP, Stitch Fix, Text Analytics, word2vec

• Baby Boom: Udemy Excel Tutorial on Analyzing Large Data Sets - Apr 15, 2015.
  This tutorial not only shows how to use Excel Pivot Tables and Graphs, but teaches the mindset needed in exploratory data analysis - look beneath the surface, consider the non-obvious interpretations, and question everything (including the data).

  CA, Data Wrangling, Excel, Tutorials, Udemy

• Provalis Research WordStat for Stata combines Numerical, Text Analysis - Apr 14, 2015.
  This new collaboration couples the cutting-edge numerical analysis of Stata with the unique text analytics functionality of Provalis Research.

  Provalis, Stata, Text Mining, WordStat

• Awesome Public Datasets on GitHub - Apr 6, 2015.
  A long, categorized list of large datasets (available for public use) to try your analytics skills on. Which one would you pick?

  Datasets, Finance, GitHub, Government, Machine Learning, NLP, Open Data, Time series data

• Blockspring: Out-run programmers with your spreadsheet - Apr 4, 2015.
  Blockspring for Google Sheets lets you run over 1000 functions from your spreadsheets - create interactive data visualizations, run algorithms, pull data sources, execute db queries, automate tweets and emails, make API calls, and more.

  Blockspring, Google, Spreadsheet

• Watson Developer Cloud-Visual Recognition - Apr 3, 2015.
  IBM Bluemix is a cloud platform which offers both Platform as a Service and Mobile Backend as a Service. Its services include Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Visual Recognition, Concept Insights, and Tradeoff Analytics.

  App, BlueMix, IBM, IBM Watson, Image Recognition, Ran Bi