I'm getting familiar with data on Twitter-Insight on Blue-Mix. I have noticed that there is a added field "USER-GENDER". As this field is not in user profiles, I tried to look in the documentation but it's not mentioned how the gender is evaluated (by Surname? by previous tweets (this would probably means that a specific algorithm is used? which one?).
If you can point me to any documentation that I missed that would be highly appreciated.
Martin
You are probably referring to the Insights for Twitter documentation that lists gender information as an enrichment.
That information can be directly obtained from the Twitter profiles, by analyzing the profile data. There are other services including Twitter itself that provide gender information based on the profile data. How the gender is derived is not documented. :)
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I'm helping develop an online ordering process for a local business, and they are offering food delivery to their location from specific partnered restaurants. The problem we're looking to solve is making the experience as smooth as possible for the user, so we're aiming to fill out these specific data fields to make the process smoother. They have QR codes on their tables, that link directly to their websites ordering page, from there the user can select from a few local restaurants, and are linked to their online ChowNow menus.
Does anyone have any experience using ChowNow, and knows if there is any way to pass off specific delivery instructions to ChowNow, specifically an address, from the link provided to the users from the QR code on their table?
We haven't found anything too helpful on this problem from ChowNow's official documentation or support. There are alternate ways that we have in mind to solve this problem if need be, but this is the desired solution from the client, and we would like to have stick with this method if possible.
I am doing a research project which wants to work out Hong Kong people's attitudes toward the public transportation system. I have collected millions of tweets using Twitter API. Since my research target is local Hong Kong people, tweets posted from official accounts or tweets contain advertisements may be useless.
Hence, could anyone give some hint about how to filter out the tweets posted from the official account? I know my explanation might be a little bit abstract. Any tips would be appreciated! Thank you!
well, you can request the user object get information about a user and test if the verified key is set to true. here is the informations you get returned informations in JSON, you can see that the key verified is among the result.
I am trying to collect some information on the usage of quizzes and turnitin.com enabled dropboxes for specific courses within the d2l database. All I really need is a way to tell via valence whether or not a course offering has a turnitin.com enabled dropbox and/or a quiz associated with it, though other useful information would be nice as well. Is there a way to do this with valence? I should note that I am aware of how to access a list of standard dropboxes, but I cannot seem to find how to tell if that particular dropbox is turnitin.com enabled. I have no starting point for quizzes. I appreciate your help, and please let me know if I can clarify anything. Thank you.
There is no current way to identify, through Valence, a TurnItIn enabled Dropbox. Our TurnItIn integration is an extension available to customers who have the appropriate TurnItIn licensing. Because we cannot assume it is in place, we cannot expose this data through Valence. I am not sure if this information would be available through TurnItIn API's.
In regards to Quizzes, today we don't have Quiz data exposed through Valence. One option for you, which isn't perfect, would be to parse through Content Topics looking for Quicklinks which contain a reference type of quiz. This would provide you with a list of how many quizzes are linked into the course's content experience.
I'm currently writing a shop-related site that has it's own community in different social networks. While posting to VKontakte and Facebook is less of an issue (I can understand the concept of "group", and VK actually has an option to write posts using the group's name), Twitter is more troublesome.
Two questions:
Is there even such a thing as "groups" in Twitter? The closest I have seen is lists and timelines, but neither appears to solve my issue.
I cannot give the operator access to the twitter account. VK has a specific option when posting in a group to use that group's name as poster name. How does this work in Twitter?
I need something akin to what lamoda has set up. (It appears to be a user, and every post is labeled as written by that user, however I doubt they give their ops access to the actual twitter account).
P.S.: I'm already done with getting past OAuth and using REST to actually post, thus no code provided. I'm just having trouble with the statuses/update.json call, if that's what I should actually be using.
Talk about simple solutions to simple problems.
It appears I have been overcomplicating. There are no groups in twitter, or even comments at that. You can only post to your own feed or re-post from somebody else's.
Posting to someone's feed (a shop account's, say) is simple enough using that account's pre-generated access token which can be stored in the configs.
I have reviewed the twitter documentation #anywhere
where I can use User Object Properties but in the userdata I don't find the gender property.
When you create a twitter account it never asks for gender, so you cant get it through the API.
You would need some kind of AI to determine it.
Demographic data such as gender and age are not available from the API -- and not always appropriate as Twitter accounts can represent many things not limited to persons alive or dead.
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You still can't get twitter users' gender but can you can deduce it with some workable apis.
See node-cheat gender_by_name for all reasonable and tested solutions.