Last week an interesting article was published in SearchCloudComputing which shows how to consume feeds from the “Social Analytics” Lab in “Data Explorer”, then perform some filter, transform and grouping operations on this data using Data Explorer’s intuitive UI and finally publish the resulting dataset as a snapshot so the contents at a given point in time can be accessed later on. You can take a look at the article following this link.

The author of this article, Roger Jennings, has also published a few other blog posts about Data Explorer on his blog. We particularly recommend you to follow the “41-step illustrated tutorial on creating a mashup”.

If you still haven’t done, you can sign up to try Data Explorer cloud service today!