The Fifth Elephant 2013

Connected consumers express everything they feel about products, services, brands in social media. How consumer feel and engage with products is very important for retailers to make better merchandizing decisions.

In this talk we will outline one such system we built to analyze 13 months of twitter data amounting to ~100B tweets.

Outline

We will outline a system to extract volume, sentiment, geo trends and related words about any arbitrary topic (defined as a boolean query) from a corpus on 100B tweets increasing at ~500M a day.

Speaker bio

Pankaj Risbood is Director of Engineering at @WalmartLabs where he leads social media analytics effort. Prior to @WalmartLabs Pankaj spent 6 years at Google leading various efforts in cloud computing, enterprise and speech processing. He was Member of Tech Staff at Bell Labs where he specialized in optical and IP networking. Pankaj has co-authored 16 issued patents and several research papers in premier conferences. An alumnus of IISc, Pankaj is a avid hiker and a marathon runner.