About The Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit – Version 0.9.0

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Update August 30, 2010

Version 0.9.0 of the SMART@znmeb Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit is now available in the SUSE Studio Gallery. The link is:

Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit 0.9.0 – SUSE Gallery http://meb.tw/bdox3f #measure #smmeasure

What Is SMART@znmeb?

SMART@znmeb is the Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit. SMART@znmeb is an appliance - a complete virtual machine designed to collect, manage and analyze social media data using state-of-the-art open source packages. Analysis capabilities include exploratory data analysis, interactive data visualization, regression, clustering, supervised and unsupervised machine learning and natural language processing.

Who Is It For?

Digital marketing professionals
Social media optimization researchers
Quantitative marketing practitioners

What Can You Do With It?

Desktop productivity tools: browser, word processing, spreadsheet, presentations
Interact automagically with the social web
Manage data
Analyze data

Interact Automagically With The Social Web

Collect data, social media or otherwise
Create Twitter bots
Build listening platforms, monitors, alerts and dashboards

Manage Data

OpenOffice.org Base database manager
PostgreSQL relational database management system
Perl, Python and Ruby scripting / filtering languages

Analyze Data

R, GGPlot2, GGobi and Mondrian
Create static & animated visualizations of your data, presentation-quality graphics
Regression, clustering, classification, multidimensional scaling, social network analysis

Why An Appliance?

Can be run as a guest inside a Windows, MacOS X or Linux desktop /
laptop virtualizer
Can be backed up, duplicated, distributed and interchanged as
a whole, complete with data & documents
Can be deployed as a server in the cloud

What's In The Machine?

Components Installed With Appliance

openSUSE® 11.3 32-bit Linux® Operating System
GNOME Desktop
Mozilla® Firefox® and Google Chromium Browsers
OpenOffice.org® Productivity Suite
R Graphical and Statistical Computing Environment (http://www.r-project.org)
GGobi Interactive Data Visualization Environment (http://ggobi.org/)
R/GGobi Scripting Interface Library (rggobi)
GGPlot2 Graphics Environment (http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/)
Mondrian Interactive Data Visualization Environment (http://rosuda.org/mondrian/)
GCC C/C++/FORTRAN and OpenJDK Java Development Tools
Perl Net::Twitter::Lite REST and Search API Library
Perl WWW::Mechanize Web Scraping Library
Twitter® Contacts, Tweets and History Data Collection Tools

Components Installed From Internet After Download

PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System (http://postgresql.org)
WordNet 3.0 (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/)
Python Natural Language Toolkit (http://www.nltk.org/)
Mallet MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit (http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/index.php)
CompLearn Compression-Based Learning (http://www.complearn.org/index.html)
OpenFTS PostgreSQL-based Full-Text Search Engine (http://openfts.sourceforge.net/)
R CRAN Natural Language Processing Task View (http://cran.fhcrc.org/web/views/NaturalLanguageProcessing.html)

What's Not In The Machine?

Gumballs, soda, peanuts, candy, meat by-products, high-fructose corn syrup,
Software with non-free-as-in-freedom licenses

Licensing

SMART@znmeb uses the same license as openSUSE 11.3: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:License
If you find a package in SMART@znmeb that's not freely distributable,
I will pull it from the distribution
If you need proprietary packages (wireless, multimedia) you
can get them