Kevin teh insight presentation

Disambiguating Twitter SearchKevin Tehkkwteh@gmail.comInsight Data Science Fellows ProgramMarch 2013

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That’s not the python that I meant...

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The solution? cluster-pluck.

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cluster-pluck disambiguates Twitter search in real time

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It works in Spanish too!

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Tools

300,000Tweets

User

Filter

Word Filter Web Application

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Algorithmread query and d/l

corpus of 1500 tweets

select potentially meaningful words

countwords

cluster candidatesinto groups

assign tweetsto clusters

filter outcommon words

rank remaining words by rate of capitalization and

select top 10

rank remaining words by number

of occurrences and select top 10

link two candidates if their relative

proportion of co-occurrence is

greater than 0.25

rank connected components by

total occurrences and take top 3

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Kevin Tehkkwteh@gmail.com

Math PhD -- May ’13Topic: Noncommutative Geometry (Whatever that is)

B.A.Sc. -- April ’07Engineering Science (Whatever that is)

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