George Mason University, Virginia. GMU Salary Information. Joshhalliday's django Bookmarks on Delicious. ConvoTrack. 5 Terrific Twitter Research Tools. Twitter has a wealth of data - it's a global thought-stream on every topic imaginable. But how do we convert that raw data into insights, trends and actionable information? How can we find the signal in all that noise? Fortunately, there are several tools out there that can help analyze Twitter data, understand user behavior, and graph it for analysis and presenting to others. Today, we've picked out five great tools to get you started. For more in-depth information about trend tracking on Twitter, take a look at last month's article, 15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends. 1. Trying to figure out how often you're actually tweeting?
Ideal for: researching individual behavior on Twitter 2. Trendrr is a new favorite among analysts looking to keep track of trends and compare information. Ideal for: tracking Twitter search, comparing information 3. If you're looking to do research on retweeting and link-sharing on Twitter, Tweetmeme provides retweeting stats for articles on Twitter. 4. 5.
Data. User Search. Dancing Ink Productions. Tom's Inflation Calculator. (If this applet doesn't run, Java probably isn't installed on your computer, or isn't enabled in your web browser, or is blocked by your browser's security settings. If you don't have Java, try downloading and installing the latest version of Oracle's Java Runtime Environment. It's free! Or try my JavaScript version. It's compatible with almost everything—smartphones and tablets, too!) How to Use Tom's Inflation Calculator Five selectable data sets let you fine-tune Tom's Inflation Calculator for your own purposes. For most purposes, the default data is sufficient. See more instructions and examples below. Two Examples Using the Calculator Example #1 (CPI-U inflation, backward in time): Suppose you just paid $3.50 for a gallon of regular gasoline.
To find out, make sure the default data set is selected: U.S. Example #2 (CPI-U inflation, forward in time): Let's say you were making $25,000 a year in 2000. To find out, start with the default data set again: U.S. U.S. A Few More Hints. Yelvington.com | Steve Yelvington's media weblog. New search engine takes 'DeepDyve' into the Dark Web. Compete. SeedWatcher. Some more thinking about Fred Wilson's musings that he's Bored with Web 2.0. While I certainly get excited when I find a new tool or site that becomes part of my web ecosystem, there's sadly a glut of tools that really have no role in making my life any better. There's a lot of me-too lately, and not a lot of actual problem solving.
I can think of at least five problems that haven't been solved yet for me on the web. Figure out a way to do so, and you'll have me not only as a loyal customer but a loyal evangelist. 1. We're all aware of the echo chamber effect in the blogosphere, especially in tech. I'd like to see a network of distributed human translators who get paid per post that they translate. 2. Let's face it, some of us are just not that prepared when disaster strikes. 3. It still baffles me that with how pervasive digital camera usage is today, we still haven't found the killer app in photo management. 4. 5.