Bart Cortooms

April 18 2010

Predicting the Future With Social Media

In this paper, we demonstrate how social media content can be used to predict real-world outcomes. In particular, we use the chatter from Twitter.com to forecast box-office revenues for movies. We show that a simple model built from the rate at which tweets are created about particular topics can outperform market-based predictors. We further demonstrate how sentiments extracted from Twitter can be further utilized to improve the forecasting power of social media.

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November 29 2009

Your Botnet is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover

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Phishing Tips and Techniques by Peter Gutmann

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November 22 2009

Technologies for Data-Intensive Computing

Slides from presentation by Andreas Bechtolsheim, Sun Microsystems Inc

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How Complex Systems Fail

John Allspaw: "Let me start with this: I don’t think I can overstate how right-on this paper is, with respect to the challenges, solutions, observations, and concerns involved with operating a medium to large web infrastructure. I found this via @benjaminblack, and I agree with him 100%: this should be considered required reading for anyone in our industry. I’m not sure if Cook ever thought that his paper would apply to web infrastructure, but I think it can and does."

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