As you probably have seen, I'm building a virtual appliance called the
Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit. It's a Linux desktop with
software added for data collection, management and analysis, with the
data focus on Twitter and analysis focus on natural language
processing. The appliance is built using SUSE Studio and is a VMware /
VirtualBox virtual machine image.
If any of you have open source projects relating to Twitter and would
like to be included, please send me an email off-list or send a tweet
to @znbeta. The software *must* have an open source license, and my
preference is for software that's already packaged in the OpenSUSE
Build Service, but as long as it can be built from source on a Linux
machine, I'll consider it.
I'm personally mostly using Perl and R, but there are Python and Java
packages already and I welcome software in other languages - I'll put
the dependencies in to support them if said dependencies are open
source. I know there are more open source data management and natural
language processing packages out there, but right now I want to focus
on the Twitter stuff.
Incidentally, the final release will *not* take place until the
Twitter open source oAuth setup is completely documented and tested!
Nothing I am currently including in the appliance uses oAuth, and
nothing will until all the bureaucratic human handshaking around oAuth
is complete.
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net/about-smartznmeb/
