Comments for Brandwatch

Comment on Product Update: 10 August 2010 by Giles Palmer

Giles Palmer — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:29:58 +0000

great work Fabrice!

Comment on Welcome to Seth and Bryan by Chris Gilbert

Chris Gilbert — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:04:12 +0000

Hi Giles,

Meant to comment on this a while ago when I first read it – looks like exciting times ahead with these appointments. Hope things are going well over there – new features are looking good.

Chris…..

Comment on Analysing Vodafone Retweets by Nate

Nate — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:42:07 +0000

Excellent! Thanks!

-Nate

Comment on Analysing Vodafone Retweets by Seth Ball

Seth Ball — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:53:28 +0000

Hi Nate,

Sorry I should have said I used wordle advanced, http://www.wordle.net/advanced which allows you to put in a list in the format “word:number”, so you can just use excel to join the relevant columns (e.g. =A1&”:”&B1) then copy and past the new column into wordle advanced.

Hope this helps,

Seth

Comment on Analysing Vodafone Retweets by Nate

Nate — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:35:27 +0000

lol yes I realized after posting that the ? at the end was going to be an issue – it was because I was asking a question about the query, but again ? is a special character. A reminder to me that should I ever want to use a search query that looks for question marks (using raw:), I’ll need to know what Brandwatch’s escape character is.

By the by, how did you get brandwatch’s word cloud data into Wordle? I was about to write a python script to “multiply” the phrases column in the .csv output by the volume column and output the entirety of that process into a single long string. My assumption was that wordle wouldn’t be able to handle an input structure that explicitly gave the word counts. Is there a better way?

Thanks!
Nate

Comment on Analysing Vodafone Retweets by Seth

Seth — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:13:38 +0000

Hi Nate, thanks for your comment always enjoy getting feedback.

Yes spot on with your query string, apart from the ? at the end which would act as a wild card, although I don’t think it would do anything in that scenario. We’ll be blogging soon about some ways to use the “?”.

With raw: you dont have to put single words in quotes, but you do with phrases and you can put it around full queries, so all of the below would work:
raw:M&S
raw:”Marks & Spencer”
raw:(M&S OR m&s OR “Marks & Spencer” OR “marks & spencer”)

We used http://www.wordle.net, which admitedly creates prettier wordclouds than our own however they dont have as much functionality.

Any other questions then just let us know.

Comment on Analysing Vodafone Retweets by Nate

Nate — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:14:37 +0000

What was the exact query you used? Something like:

site:twitter.com AND raw:”RT” AND vodafone ?

I can never remember, with raw: do you have to enclose single words in quotes, or is it just phrases? Can you raw: full queries in () like with site:?

Also, if you used Brandwatch 4.0 for either of those word clouds, I would love to know how you did it!