Counting how many times a web link has been shared on Twitter or Facebook

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|July 6, 2012

As of this writing, I’ve posted 34 blogs posts during 2012 (not counting this one), which have been shared on Twitter a total of 368 times and on Facebook a total of 92 times. Those aren’t exactly “viral” numbers, but I try not to get too hung up on it. [...]

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Hammer time with high school students

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|April 12, 2011

This morning I delivered a talk to visiting high school students at the SAS campus. The topic: using SAS to analyze Twitter content. Being teenagers, high school students are well familiar with Twitter. But this batch of students was also very familiar with SAS, as they all have taken SAS [...]

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Running PROCs on Your Facebook Friends (2011 version)

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|April 3, 2011

While talking to fellow SAS users at SAS Global Forum 2011 this week, I’ll be discussing how SAS programmers can “play” with social media data that they can access on Facebook and Twitter. I always refer people to my blog for more information, and so I’ve prepared this blog post [...]

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SAS programmers: meet Twitter

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|March 31, 2011

“Twitter, thou art nought but data.” So sayeth the SAS programmer. Many data analysts now recognize Twitter for what it is: a tremendous source of data covering almost any topic, from Justin Bieber’s hair to political uprisings to technical conferences to company brands. SAS offers sophisticated solutions to harness this [...]

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Mining the VP debate results according to Twitter -- with SAS

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|October 3, 2008

Like millions of Americans, I watched the vice presidential debate on television last night. I also watched it on Twitter — which is to say that while watching the debate, I watched the real-time responses of hundreds of Twitter users. Twitter users, as you may know, have up to 140 [...]

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