TransparencyEngine – Finding Influencers and Their Tribes
TransparencyEngine (previously called "GalaxyScope") is a new powerful and easy-to-use tool to find the most influential people about any topic on social media. You can try out TransparencyEngine here . (You will need a Twitter account and have to login with it.) In an earlier post I described how to use Condor to run queries for TransparencyEngine. While Condor is powerful in finding hidden trends and influencers on social media such as Twitter, Blogs, Wikipedia, and Web sites and online forums, it has quite a steep learning curve. If one is not a data scientist or computer savvy otherwise, Condor can be quite challenging to extract the results one is looking for. We therefore have developed a Web version of TransparencyEngine described in this post as a much simpler to use tool. TransparencyEngine has been created by my colleague Joao Marcos de Oliveira as an easier-to-use alternative to Condor. Other than Condor i...