Baltimore Business Journal reports that Sickweather, a startup that provides sickness forecasting and mapping by scanning social networks, is one of ten startups selected as finalists for Light City Baltimore’s pitch competition.
The day of Sheen’s disclosure coincided with a 265 percent increase in news reports mentioning HIV (97 percent of which also mentioned Sheen) archived on the Bloomberg Terminal, even though HIV-related news reports have been in historic decline. An additional 6,500 stories were reported on Google News alone. This placed Sheen’s disclosure among the top 1 percent of historic HIV-related media events.
In 2009, two computer scientists at the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University got access to a trove of Tweets — some 2 billion posted between May 2009 and October 2010 — and decided to find a way to analyze them.
