Metatext An automated text classification program that uses

Metatext An automated text classification program that uses Twitter to detect social trends By Zack Schwartz A Social Network Twitter and Society Twitter is a large social network where people can post short messages in 140 characters or less called tweets. Tweets range from the mundane to news breaking. cnnbrk: 11 students, gunman killed in Brazil school shooting, authorities say westiemom 23: Paleo cookies came out yummy! Metatext Objective Twitter has been prominent in significant events over the last several years. It has been used during the Japanese Tsunami, the Egyptian Revolution, and the Iranian elections in 2009. "Woman says ppl knocking on her door 2 AM saying they were intelligence agents, took her daughter" Metatext aims to track the pulse of society and identify societal trends. Bloomberg, JP Morgan Metatext Stock Market Trends Societal Trends There are millions of these tweets every day Metatext Program Graphing Trends Challenging Tweets Categories Food Sports Health Live Tweets Metatext Program “watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory yay. ” Entertainment Sports Trends “tell them that it’s human nature –mj” Entertainment Food Weather One Week of Data Getting the Tweets Live Stream of Tweets “the cavs blew their chance to beat Lebron this year” Sports Interpreting Tweets Classification Metatext uses a machine learning algorithm. It predicts which category a tweet belongs to based on previously known data. “watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” Belongs to Novel, Book, Film, Fiction @jd lol dis burger is delish Categories Scores Sports 0. 0 Entertainment 0. 8 Health 0. 0 Food 0. 2 Tweets Categories Tweets Score Tweet English Only Tweet Expand Tweet [Laughter] [this] burger is [delicious] Word by Word Score Tweet Classify