Thursday, September 22, 2011

Sentiment Analysis, the R way, on Netflix's September 18th Announcement

Did Netflix make a bad move or a bold move, only time will tell but for now here is a simple sentiment analysis using R and TwitteR package on tweets involving Netflix for you to consume...


So aftermath of #netflix supposedly bad strategic move, I thought that it will be little fun to do a little sentiment analysis using a sample of tweets from the past few days. I turned to my favorite "R" and discovered a new package called "TwitteR" and 4 lines of code later, I had the following outcome:

788 of the 1500 tweets, that is 52.5% of the tweets, over the last three days had words bad, suck, terrible or :( with #netflix...

You be the judge whether Netflix customers are unhappy and whether it was a bad (or bold) strategic move...

>  library("twitteR")
> searchNF <- searchTwitter("#netflix bad OR suck OR terrible OR disaster OR :(", n=1500, since=as.character(Sys.Date()-3))
> negativeTweets <- length(searchNF)
> negativeSentiment <- negativeTweets/1500

And yes, I enjoy coding :)

Friday, September 16, 2011

Best quotes from Forbes Article SAP-Google Maps Partnership


SAP Partnership with Google Maps Indicates a New Openness

"SAP is overcoming a legacy of an insular engineering culture that could accurately be accused of suffering from a “not invented here” complex in the past."


"The only problem with SAP’s pride in its history is that it has sometimes shut the company’s eyes to new ways of creating software. It appears that this announcement may mark a turning point to increased awareness and use of outside components. If SAP becomes truly open to using more and more outside components, and learns how to use them to create stable, reliable software, SAP could accelerate the pace of change, keeping the stable parts of its applications, but adding the best of what has newly arrived."


There is something more at stake for Google than money - it is likely that Google Maps will be adapted by Google to better meet the needs of enterprise applications.


"What’s next? What other cloud components will SAP start to incorporate? The second is: Is a bigger partnership possible? Google’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Much of the information that runs the world is in SAP. Why aren’t Google and SAP working together to make it more universally accessible and useful?"

Pervasive Location Analytics − The Next Frontier to Fall In the Enterprise Software?

Geo-location and spatial intelligence is the strategic turning point for business analytics and BI. Location has become an essential part of the enterprise data and increasing number of enterprises have geo-coded their location data to build location-aware application to drive location-aware decisions. For example, by overlaying the foreclosure data, income data, and the data from its mortgage portfolio on a geo-chart, a regional mortgage bank assesses the risk of its mortgage portfolio and decides to take corrective actions. A fast food company uses the demographics data, the latest census data, and the historical sales of its stores to determine the location of its new restaurant. 
Slides from SAP TechEd 2011 Las Vegas - http://goo.gl/etkvI

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Google Maps - SAP - The press is humming...

Thanks to my friends in marketing...


SAP Now Allows Businesses To Layer Big Data With Google Maps And Earth

Leena Rao, TechCrunch
July 27, 2011
Also seen in: The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NewsFactor, The Business Insider, 21st Century Networker, Maine Social Networking, Data Centers Canada

(385 tweets)


SAP Tying Analytics to Google Maps, Earth

Chris Kanaracus, IDG News
July 27, 2011
Also seen in: PCWorld, CIO, Network World, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, PC Advisor, InfoWorld, Albuquerque Express, CFO World, ARNnet, ITworld, Good Gear Guide, Techworld, Computerworld Australia, Computerworld UK, ITBusiness.ca
(114 tweets)

Google Deal Lets SAP Customers Map Data
Doug Henschen, InformationWeek
July 27, 2011
(28 tweets)

 

Google and SAP Team-Up to Help You Visualize Big Data

Klint Finley, ReadWriteWeb
July 27, 2011
(128 tweets)

SAP, Google expand collaboration partnership, eye enterprise mashups
Larry Dignan, ZDNet
July 27, 2011
(39 tweets)

SAP and Google Maps Team Up to Visualize Corporate Data

Todd R. Weiss, CIO blog: Deciphering Enterprise Apps

July 27, 2011

(3 tweets)

 

SAP Geo-tagging Business Analytics Data with Google Maps

Clint Boulton, eWEEK

July 27, 2011

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/SAP-Geotagging-Business-Analytics-Data-with-Google-Maps-274375/

Also seen in: eWEEK Europe
(19 tweets)

SAP Invokes Google Maps to Put Data in Context

Mike Vizard, IT Business Edge

July 27, 2011

(2 tweets)

 

Google Plus SAP Deepen Ties, Deliver More Enterprise Integration

Courtney Bjorlin, ASUG News

July 27, 2011

(14 tweets)

Photos: Google Maps gives SAP's business intelligence a new direction
Tim Ferguson, Silicon.com
July 27, 2011
(6 tweets)

SAP and Google Put Business Analytics on the Map

Justin Kern, Information Management

July 27, 2011

http://www.information-management.com/news/business_intelligence_analytics_data_geospatial-10020840-1.html

Also seen in: Insurance Networking News
(10 tweets)

SAP and Google Partner for Geospatial Business Intelligence
Paul Shread, EnterpriseAppsToday
July 27, 2011
(7 tweets)

SAP, Google and geospatial analytics
Todd Morrison, SearchSAP
July 27, 2011
(3 tweets)

 

SAP and Google team up to mash up analytics and maps
Matt Hartley, Financial Post
July 27, 2011

http://business.financialpost.com/2011/07/27/sap-and-google-team-up-to-mash-up-analytics-and-maps/

(4 tweets)

 

The “Where” Dimension of Business Intelligence

Adrian Gonzalez, Logistics Viewpoints
July 27, 2011
(15 tweets)

SAP, Google team up to tie-in business analytics to Google Map

Brad Lemaire, Proactive Investors USA & Canada
July 27, 2011
(4 tweets)

Google and SAP Partner on Geo-Mapping

Chris Crum, WebProNews
July 27, 2011
(23 tweets)

Google and SAP Team Up for Geovisualization of Business Analytics

Matt Ball, Spatial Sustain
July 27, 2011
(5 tweets)

SAP Partnership With Google Allows Data Mapping on Google Maps
TechGadgetsWeb.com
July 27, 2011
(5 tweets)

Street Fight Daily: 07.27.11
David Hirschman, Street Fight Daily: Inside the Business of Hyperlocal
July 27, 2011
(0 tweets)

Media and Blogger Coverage – Headlines & Links Select Global Coverage

EMEA
Germany
Geo-Dienste: SAP verbündet sich mit Google
Sibylle Gassner, Silicon.de
July 27, 2011
(4 tweets)

SAP und Google wollen gemeinsam Geodaten sammeln
Jens Hartmann, Silicon.de
July 27, 2011
(10 tweets)

SAP und Google rücken zusammen
Corrina Visser, Der Tagesspiegel
July 27, 2011
(1 tweet)

Netherlands
SAP, Google team up to pair enterprise apps with LBS tools
Telecompaper
July 27, 2011                 
(2 tweets)

Switzerland
Big Data: SAP married with Google Maps and Google Earth/ Big Data: SAP verheiratet sich mit Google Maps und Google Eart
Inside-it.ch
July 27, 2011
(0 tweets)

UK

SAP's Google partnership adds mapping data to business intelligence

Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk
July 27, 2011
(0 tweets)

SAP and Google plan ‘big data’ Maps
Tom Brewster, ITPro
July 27, 2011
(13 tweets)

SAP & Google Partner For Enhanced Location-Based Analytics
ITProPortal
July 27, 2011
(5 tweets)

SAP sees double-digit growth in software sales

Computing.co.uk
July 27, 2011
(1 tweets)

APJ 
India
SAP teams-up with Google to manage big data
CIOL India
July 27, 2011
(0 tweets)

SAP and Google Maps - Putting "Where" in the "What-When-Where" equation!

Organizations are looking for that x-factor to get competitive advantage. Could geo/location-enabled solutions offer the promise to deliver that x-factor?  I think so.  

Lets use couple of examples to understand this deal - where should Chipotle open its next franchise or where should BP drill its next well...  Geo-enabled solutions could help answer those questions. Yes, this is already happening and some of these companies have very sophisticated software to do this. But, these software solutions should be available for the masses - 

Here is my business explanation for this deal- 

  •         A large part of the world’s enterprise data resides in the SAP systems;
  •         And according to some estimates more than 80% of that enterprise data has a space dimension to it; 
  •     Increasing amount of organizations demand geo-spatial lenses to engage with the space dimension of their data; 
  •     Hence, this collaboration between the #1 enterprise software company and the #1 consumer Internet company to bring location-aware solutions to the market.


Go SAP-Google Maps!

R and Future of Predictive!

I am super excited about R. I have been writing quantitative scripts (QuantMod) using R (MatLab prior to that) since 2008 and I am discovering new possibilities everyday. This is my night job!

So once R is packaged behind RESTful APIs, it is available to the masses. That is my goal. I know that RevolutionAnalytics guys have a lead (or at least they say that they have lead), but I have a different approach - take R to the masses, not just to the Enterprise but everyone. I am not far from my goal.

Thank you RApache!