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20 Mar 09

Crawling the Web to Foretell Ecosystem Collapse

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The Interwebs could become an early warning system for when the web of life is about to fray.

By trawling scientific list-serves, Chinese fish market websites, and local news sources, ecologists think they can use human beings as sensors by mining their communications.
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- The six billion people on Earth are changing the biosphere so quickly that traditional ecological methods can't keep up. Humans, though, are acute observers of their environments and bodies, so scientists are combing through the text and numbers on the Internet in hopes of extracting otherwise unavailable or expensive information. It's more crowd mining than crowd sourcing.
- Much of the pioneering work in this type of Internet surveillance has come in the public health field, tracking disease.

16 Mar 09

6 Unique Twitter Visualizations

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27 Feb 09

The Top Twitterers’ Network

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These charts were generated using the wonderful, free yed graphing software.

25 Feb 09

Americans’ Online Search Behavior Points to Significant Increase in Personal Financial Turmoil

Interesting analysis demonstrating yet again that analysis of online conversations and behavior has the potential to provide valuable insights into important, current policy challenges.

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comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital
world, today released an analysis of changes in Americans’ searching behavior
resulting from the economic downturn, based on December 2008 data from comScore
Marketer, a search intelligence tool.

Searches
for several terms related to the economic downturn showed dramatic gains during
the past year. Among the most notable
increases were searches relating to the deteriorating job market, including
searches using the term “unemployment” (up 206 percent to 8.2 million searches)
and “unemployment benefits” (up 247 percent to 748,000 searches). Meanwhile,
terms relating to personal asset situations, including “mortgage” (up 72
percent to 7.8 million searches), “bankruptcy” (up 156 percent to 2.6 million
searches), and “foreclosure” (up 67 percent to 1.4 million searches) also grew
strongly. And Americans, resilient as they are, are seeking ways to save money,
as evidenced by the increase in the number of searches for “coupons” (up 161
percent to 19.9 million) and “discount” (up 26 percent to 7.9 million).