Moody: Gnip normalizes over 100 social feeds into a single stream
Chris Moody · Chris Moody, Gnip // Data Driven NYC #3 // Feb 2012 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 2:47
Chris Moody, President and COO of Gnip, explains Gnip's core product architecture at Data Driven NYC in February 2012.
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“So what Gnip fundamentally does is we take data from lots of different social sources, I think there's something like over a hundred feeds of different social sources. We bring that data in, we normalize it so that you consume it as if it were one stream, not a hundred streams.”
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