December 2011
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Some numbers on our NIPS demo
So here are is a bit of background information on the data processing we’re doing for our NIPS demo. We’re currently reanalyzing the retweet trends for all of 2010. We cannot afford the firehose (but really, who can?), but the normal stream API gives more than enough data. It seems to be capped by about 50 tweets per second, but this still gives about 4.3 million tweets per day. The...