One of the features of CI:Insight about which  I am most impressed is the ability to view 1,000s of messages, organized into themes, within a single panel. This is called a dataset but this landscape actually represents blog posts, twitter feeds, news and message board posts, Facebook entries, etc filtered and organized into themes. On [...]

A major wildfire had been burning a few miles to the north of where my husband and I live in Boulder, CO. We had loaned out our house to friends,  kept tabs on the possible evacuation – but more or less had gone about our days. But we weren’t there. My husband and I had [...]

As the summer comes to an end, I’ve decided to do an analysis on a Hilton, Marriott, and Hyatt to see how their perception fared through the summer. Examining language usage gives you a view into how consumer perceptions can vary across brands. To get a quick view of this, I’ve examined opinionated, action language, [...]

Social media is a cultural tool. It plays so many roles. Social Media is a community, a sounding board, an educator, recommender, direction giver, exploration tool, news/weather and alert giver. Think of all the cool, new things you’ve found organically as a result of social media. If you are active on Twitter, you know what I mean. All of these uses facilitate connection. You share with a friend, they share with a friend, and the list goes on and on. By sharing what we find it becomes ingrained in our society, effecting and growing our cultural mindset.

Collective Intellect is offering you the chance to play with our new semantic search engine. You won’t get the full experience of CI:Insight (our very impressive social analytics tool, which uses semantic search) but you can experiment with a semantic search engine get an idea of how it works.  You may ask yourself, “why would [...]