Twitter announces acquisition of large data analysis company Luckysort

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time of May 14, according to the U.S. Science and Technology blog TechCrunch reported, Twitter Monday announced the acquisition of large data analysis company Lucky Sort, and will close its services in the next few months. Lucky sort is located in Oregon State Portland, the main product is the Visual Navigation Engine topic Watch, which helps users master the patterns of real-time data flow. Topic Watch is the first product of Lucky sort, which allows users to filter the content of social media, government documents, news and comments in real time so that users can search, summarize, and analyze these text-based content. In addition to topic watch, Lucky port also has other data-class products. Lucky sort used to have extensive data in the past, and mining large unstructured data through natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Lucky sort is unique in that it does not identify structures from unstructured database structures that contain nouns and verbs, as in traditional NLP techniques, but rather uses statistical data for unstructured data mining and a data-processing visualization interface that supports touch screens. Lucky Port has been operating smoothly since its inception, with news that the company received 500,000 seed financing in the early 2012. Before being bought by Twitter, Lucky Port had a total of $600,000 in funding. Norman Packard, one of the investors, Norman Pacard as chief science executive at Lucky Port (figuratively Sciences officer), but Packard will not join Twitter, including CEO Noya Pepor (Noah Several members, including Pepper, will move into the revenue-generating engineering department at Twitter's headquarters in the coming months. Details of the deal are not yet announced. In addition to lucky Port, Twitter also recently acquired data analysis company Ubalo, music discovery Service we Are hunted and video sharing services Vine. (Chen)