Ok, Zoetrope hasn’t been released yet and from what I’m reading on Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media blog Zoetrope might just well be the glue that binds web data together in a way that makes sense of changes - here’s the video of that Zoetrope can/will do - and there are a lot of “ifs” to be answered - like how much content is going to be indexed unde Zoetrope - but what I see - is an exciting future for Analytsts, like my self, that pose questions - and use the Web Analytics and Zoetrope data to answer the questions and gain insight.
When I used to work at IBM, maybe two years ago, a Stakeholder asked me to measure the impact of changes to certain parts of IBM’s eServer pages - at the time, we had much of the link data in IBM Surfaid - but we didn’t know what was on the the page 6 months earlier - there’s no way to look for something you don’t know was there.
The WayBackMachine was no help, as it wasn’t granular enough - and as you’ll see, totally lacks the analytics capabilities of Zoetrope (see Pinning down the fleeting Internet: Web crawler archives historical data for easy searching).
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| Zoetrope scans BBC headline articles for past stories about the Ukraine. |
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