Short Takes: October 15, 2010
By SD Times Editorial Board
October 15, 2010 —
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Increase and manage your Twitter socialize
Using the words "increase," "socialize" and "manage" will get your social media words re-tweeted the most on Twitter, according to a new analysis posted on the SmartData Collective blog.
Text Mining analyzed 3,000 social media title posts in order to determine the most read and written-about topics, wrote the blog’s author, Greek data mining consultant Themos Kalafatis. Phrases including the words "write," "talk" and "trust" were re-tweeted less frequently, he said.
Kalafatis described this analysis as “one more example on how predictive analytics may help professionals make better decisions.” So, folks, the next time you post a tweet about an application you just built or a blog you just wrote, be sure to use those words. It may manage to get someone’s attention while they socialize on Twitter and increase your chances of being re-tweeted! — Katie Serignese
We'll remember for 2020
SD Times has traditionally celebrated issues in increments of 50. For issue 250, we ran some ruminations from our readers and marked the occasion with sentimental editorials from some of our writers.
But for issue 256, nothing was planned. I was shocked. Frankly, issue 256 is far more important than issue 250. After all, it's a power of 2. I wasn't here for the last power of 2, issue 128. That's a fairly shocking revelation for me, since I've been at SD Times for what seems like forever.
And at this rate, I will have to be here forever, too, if I want to stick around for issue 2^9. Issue 512 won't be out for another 11 years, and frankly, who knows how many of us will still be alive then, let alone working at SD Times. — Alex Handy
Letting computers help us think things through
Business intelligence is great at helping organizations see what happened in the past and what’s happening now. But to guess what will happen in the future requires something called “predictive business intelligence.”
Rado Kotorov, chief innovation officer at Information Builders, described this as the use of technology to form better expectations about the future. Reporting and analytics enable you to take corrective action from the past. In a hospital setting, it might show an over-prescription of a certain drug, so administrators might set a new policy for its use going forward.
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