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.

  Tags: 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”.

  Tags: 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.

  Tags: 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.

  Tags: 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.

  Tags: 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.

  Tags: 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).

  Tags: 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.

  Tags: 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?

  Tags: 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.

  Tags: 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.

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