In July, Peter Corbett of iStrategyLabs shared a data set of 65,000 tweets and facebook statuses from the DC tech community which we visualized with a word cloud. Now we've used technology from local startup, Synapsify to find the most meaningful and interesting tweets in the dataset. Synapsify uses algorithms based on patterns in music to analyze sounds of sentiment and metaphor in written language. For more about Synapsify, come to tonight's DC NLP Meetup, where I'll be speaking about the Synapsify algorithm in more depth. The following tweets are the least cheerleader-ey and highlight the most important themes for the DC tech community.
@minhn21 says it seems that seed funding is the new Series A. Are DC investors too risk averse? Too focused on the obvious? #dctech
— Brandon Andrews (@teambmichael) May 23, 2013
@dcchamber the District [gov] offers very little training opps for little to no cost. #dctech #smallbiz need #websites & #tech training
— Jana Baldwin (@NWtoSE) October 4, 2012
Wonder if teacher amy reno could assign videos, wikis, etc 4 students to watch outside of class & then talk about them in class #dctech
— Scott Talan (@talan) August 2, 2011
#DCTech needs to be a part of @plus_socialgood: How tech can foster creative connections & new ideas to improve life for all of us? #2030NOW
— Jessica Tunon (@jess2non) July 1, 2013
.@billgates biggest impediment to job creation: immigration (if u get a $100K offer after graduating u deserve a green card) #dctech #ct4p
— DC CommTech4Progress (@CT4Progress) March 13, 2013
Catch bees (startup winners) with honey & flies (startup crap) with shit. Don't hang at the startup outhouse. Find the honey pot #DCTech
— Glen Hellman (@glehel) July 5, 2013
@ourplacedc #tech education opportunities should be readily available to individuals that have been incarcerated #reentry #dctech #iamdtech
— Jana Baldwin (@NWtoSE) November 6, 2012
Problem with @Uber_DC fiasco is the hostile business environment in DC, undoes hard earned good will for #dctech like @fortifyvc's fort.
— Sponto (@SpontoInc) January 14, 2012
Has your startup been offered an investment provided you paid a represntative of the funder a 10% success fee? #DCTech #Startup #BadApple
— Glen Hellman (@glehel) April 19, 2013
When asked where to find devs for a startup I've been telling people to learn to program. #dctech
— Peter Corbett ✈ (@corbett3000) April 8, 2012
123 nerds, 326 hipsters, and 751 social media experts. Wonder what it smells like in there. #DCTech
— Dave Sandrowitz (@sandman_va) July 11, 2012
