Social media services like Twitter have become a prominent source of research data for both academic and corporate applications because of the large amount of data available. Twitter allows researchers to obtain low-cost data samples, but past research has shown the data is not a random distribution and thus, is unrepresentative of the population. As...

Big data analytics uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, and other practical information that can be applied to make more accurate predictions and decisions. Current techniques rely on statistics and decision-tree algorithms in order to “mine” useful information from massive data sets that are largely dominated by irrelevant data...