When you hear the term “data scientist,” you probably think of finance or meteorology or maybe a sports-managing savant like Jonah Hill in Moneyball. But that’s all about to change. It’s no longer just baseball recruiting or even Wall Street that are wooing the analytical geniuses. We’re seeing people who used to live in academia
Given this enormous volume of social media data, analysts have come to recognize Twitter as a virtual treasure trove of information for data mining, social network analysis, and information for sensing public opinion trends and groundswells of...