Author Archives: Stuart Shulman

About Stuart Shulman

Stuart Shulman is a political science professor, software inventor, entrepreneur and garlic growing enthusiast who coaches U11 boys club soccer with a national D-license. He is Founder & CEO of Texifter, LLC, Director of QDAP-UMass, and Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Stu is the proud owner of a Bernese/Shepherd named "Colbert" who is much better known as 'Bert. You can follow his exploits @stuartwshulman.

DiscoverText Sweepstakes

SIOP 2013 DiscoverText Sweepstakes  Win One Free Year of DiscoverText Enterprise Individual Access I would like to invite you to enter the SIOP 2013 DiscoverText Sweepstakes. All you need to do is sign up online for a free, 30-day, no obligation trial: https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial It … Continue reading

Posted in general | Leave a comment

Joining Vision Critical: Reflections of an Inventor

As of today, DiscoverText is part of a larger company: Vision Critical, a market research technology provider that works with more than a third of the world’s top 100 brands. The thrill of joining a successful and growing firm headquartered … Continue reading

Posted in DiscoverText, product, Texifter | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Gnip Power Track Expansion

It’s official. Starting in January 2013, DiscoverText customers will be able to purchase monthly access to four vibrant Gnip-enabled Power Track data feeds. Building on current successes with Twitter, we are pleased to offer unprecedented federated Power Track access to … Continue reading

Posted in DiscoverText, Disqus, GNIP, Social Media, Tumblr, Twitter, Twitter, WordPress | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Smoking Hot Data

We interviewed researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago in the Health Media Collaboratory about their use of DiscoverText and the Gnip-enabled Power Track for Twitter to study smoking behavior. The team, led by Dr. Sherry Emery, explains why it … Continue reading

Posted in DiscoverText, general, GNIP, research, Social Media, Twitter | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Tutorial Videos

Thanks to our friends at Screencast.com, we now have our entire tutorial video library indexed in a spiffy new media roll. Learn how to use DiscoverText to archive, filter, search, code, and machine classify text from social media, surveys, emails … Continue reading

Posted in DiscoverText, general, product | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Texifter and Columbia University Launch New Gnip Data Feeds

AMHERST, MA, November 15, 2012 New collaboration brings greater social data coverage to research, education, and commercial users. Texifter, a text analytics start-up, is launching access to two new major blog data streams as part of its collaboration with Columbia … Continue reading

Posted in general, Texifter | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Fear and Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail

Hurricane Sandy kept me from giving this talk titled “Fear & Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail” in San Francisco, so here is it via a Screencast. Tweet This Post

Posted in DiscoverText, research, Social Media | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

What are your customers thinking?

“The October 30, 2012 Sentiment Analysis Symposium in San Francisco will be the 5th instance of a premier business-focused conference, the only conference that will teach you about technology and solutions that help you discover business value in opinions, emotions, … Continue reading

Posted in general | Comments Off

Hunting Political Fear

The R&D team has been preparing an academic basic research talk I will make at the October 30, 2012 Sentiment Analysis Symposium. The title is “Fear and Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail” and we have been working with a … Continue reading

Posted in research, Social Media | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Complete History of Twitter Now Available via GNIP

Texifter was the first company to join as a paying customer in the alpha “Snapshot” offering from Gnip. You can still take part in that alpha by submitting a request for a free estimate of a snapshot from Twitter’s complete … Continue reading

Posted in DiscoverText, general, GNIP, Social Media, Texifter, Twitter | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Heat Maps Arrive

 We are thrilled with the response to v1 of our heat map tools, which provide a unique glimpse into the nature and scope of inter-coder agreement in DiscoverText. This video introduces the beta version of the tool. Overtime, the tool … Continue reading

Posted in DiscoverText, general, product, research | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Chasing the Social Media Data Trail – Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

I really like the effort Jeremy Harris Lipschultz put into preparing this panel, recording it with a small hand held device, making edits, and producing a polished video and blog post. Early attempts to list useful social media metrics quit … Continue reading

Posted in general, research, Social Media, Twitter | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Coders Needed!

We are building up a pool of coders for some new projects. If you are good at labeling text this may be an excellent opportunity for you. Graduate students are particularly welcome to join the pool. Coders accepted into the … Continue reading

Posted in DiscoverText, general, research | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Twitter Fire Hose Access: Never Miss a Tweet

Just in time for the 2012 GOP convention, we are running a special offer to provide full Twitter fire hose access via the Gnip-enabled Power Track for Twitter: Never miss a tweet. Full coverage with no rate limits. Powerful search … Continue reading

Posted in DiscoverText, general, GNIP, product, research | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Election Special: Gnip Power Track Access Fee Cut in Half

Memo to: Political Junkies, Researchers, and Journalists Subject: 2012 GOP Convention Would you like every tweet from @GOPconvention, #RNC2012, #Romney, #TeaParty, or any person whose Twitter bio contains “Romney”? These are just a few of the possible queries you can … Continue reading

Posted in API, DiscoverText, general, GNIP, Twitter | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments