{"id":3134,"date":"2014-02-12T12:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T06:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simplify360.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/looking-beyond-just-social-media-monitoring\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T11:11:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T11:11:47","slug":"looking-beyond-just-social-media-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplify360.com\/blog\/looking-beyond-just-social-media-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking beyond just social media listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest challenge faced by brands implementing social media listening\u00a0is that there is too much unstructured information and data. It is like what some of the folks in the industry call it, information puke. Absence of data is a worry and too much data is also a concern.<br \/>\nAs written in one of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/simplify360\/big-data-and-social-media-analytics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presentations earlier on Big data<\/a>,\u00a0One of the biggest challenge with so much data on social media is; deriving a meaningful contextual information.<br \/>\nSocial media data is highly unstructured. Unlike other customer data from retail, banking etc. which is structured, data on social media is very unstructured.<\/p>\n<h2>Case Study: Attempt to derive meaningful contextual information on conversation around Satya Nadella<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simplify360.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/microsoft.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/simplify360.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/microsoft.jpg\" alt=\"microsoft\" width=\"380\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere were more than <strong>110<\/strong> thousand mentions of the newly appointed Satya Nadella in last few days. In our attempt to analyze what were people talking about him, we were faced with information overload. There were more than 50 thousand tweets\/posts per day.<br \/>\nThat being said,here is how poople are talking about Satya Nadella on social media. 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It is like what some of the folks in the industry call it, information puke. Absence of data is a worry and too much data is also a concern. 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