So my topic is to be Open Source Intelligence Analysis using R and text mining....


What is the current mood say in Iran, at this present moment? Intelligence agencies might benefit from a tool that can collect information intelligently to support government or military decision making.  The Blog sphere, Twitter and many other Social Networking sites could example provide the required information. 


I received a couple of white papers with examples on how terrorists use these methods for communication and information gathering which I read and quite eye opening, the use of smart phones and only a certain amount character status updates is very significant. I will have to research more into other similar situations. This investigation will be independent, although guidance from my Lecturer if required.


My next stage (today) is to fully understand how R works and the process of data/text mining as I have had no experience so far, I will be posting any useful links that i found helpful, and to see if there is an alternative open source tool to R as it seems a bit outdated and hard to navigate around.


I have to consider a question for my thesis and an area for investigation, my lecturer suggested the Question time twitter feed as there is a lot of opinion on there and might be worthwhile trying to mine that. (Once i get to grips with what mining actually does!)


Hoping that when I meet with Les (Lecturer) that i will feel more confident about which angle to take on this.

Hey,


This is going to be my blog to keep track of research, analysis and opinions during my Honour's year project, and once i get the go ahead with my topic of choice then i will be updating regularly. :o)