Extraction of quantitative data from online content

A computer implemented method which, when operated on a computer processor, creates a specialized system for generating quantitative tuples, the method comprising:

• accessing, through a network communication component of a computer system having the computer processor, multiple user posts found on the internet by a quantitative tuple generator, the quantitative tuple generator creating a corpus of user posts from the found user posts;
• filtering the corpus of user posts according to a desired event through an event filter component to create a first subset of the corpus of user posts, the first subset comprising a plurality of users posts from the corpus of user posts that have content in the post placed there by the user that relates to the desired event;
• responsive to filtering the corpus of user posts, filtering each post of the first subset through a quantitative value filter component according to whether user placed content of the respective each post of the first subset includes a quantitative value, thereby generating a second subset of user posts comprising user posts from the first subset having a quantitative value in the respective content and relating to the desired event;
• responsive to filtering each post of the first subset, extracting from the second subset a body of quantitative tuples corresponding to the desired event through a tuple extraction component, wherein each of the quantitative tuples of the body of quantitative tuples includes at least a quantitative value extracted from the respective content and a corresponding topic;
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• storing the body of quantitative tuples in a quantitative tuple data store.

A computer readable medium bearing computer executable instructions which, when executed on a computing system comprising at least a processor and a memory, carry out a specialized method for generating quantitative tuples, the method comprising:

• accessing, through a network communication component of the computer system and executed on the processor of the computer system, a plurality of user posts retrieved from the internet by a quantitative tuple generator, the quantitative tuple generator creating a corpus of user posts from a subset of the retrieved user posts;
• filtering the corpus of user posts through an event filter component to create a first subset of user posts that were generated in response to occurrence of an event, the first subset comprising a plurality of users posts from the corpus of user posts each having content placed in the post by a user that relates to the event;
• filtering each post in the first subset through a quantitative value filter component to create a second subset of user posts, each of which includes a quantitative value in the respective user content relating to the event;
• extracting from content of the posts in the second subset a body of quantitative tuples corresponding to the event through a tuple extraction component, wherein each quantitative tuple of the body of quantitative tuples of the body of quantitative tuples includes at least a quantitative value and a corresponding topic;
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• storing the body of quantitative tuples in a quantitative tuple data store.