Gnip and Twitter Bringing Social Data to Academic Researchers http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-data-grants/

From the Gnip blog:

"What if the next generation of data scientists could have access to social data for their research? And what if we could help increase the quantity and quality of published research using social data? Exploring what might be possible has led to an exciting new collaboration between Twitter and Gnip. Today, we're announcing the pilot of the Twitter Data Grants program, a new initiative designed to support research and fuel innovation in our industry." On a related note: I have taken on the task of setting up 1-2 academic panels for the next Big Boulder conference. If you are an academic doing work with Twitter data and you are interested in potentially appearing on a Big Boulder panel, please send me a brief synopsis of your project and a link to any web-based materials about it. For more about past Big Boulder conferences, please visit: http://blog.gnip.com/big-boulder-the-worlds-first-social-data-conference/ and http://blog.gnip.com/big-boulder-2013-recap/ For information about the Big Boulder Initiative: http://blog.gnip.com/social-data-industry-organization/ ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter texifter.com <http://www.texifter.com> LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899> Twitter: twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman<http://twitter.com/#%21/StuartWShulman>