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Category Archives: research
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 Data Mining, DiscoverText, GNIP, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, PowerTrack, R&D, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tweets, Twitter Mining
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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 Active Learning, Code Text, coding, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, election, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, software, Text Analytics
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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 Active Learning, coding, Data Mining, fear, Politics, Social Media, software, statistics, Text Analytics
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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 coding, DiscoverText, Heatmaps, inter-rater reliability, Research, statistics
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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 AEJMC, analytics, Data Mining, Google, Machine Learning, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, software, Text Analysis, Twitter Mining
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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 coding, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, Machine Learning, social media monitoring, statistics, Texifter, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API
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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 Data Mining, DiscoverText, GNIP, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, PowerTrack, Social Media, social media monitoring, software, Text Analytics, Tweets, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API, Twitter Mining
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Fear & Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail
I am very excited to be undertaking a whole new line of research into political fear. Inspired by my work with Glen Szczypka and the Health Media Collaboratory, I had this proposal accepted for the October 30, 2012 Sentiment Analysis … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, general, research, Twitter
Tagged analysis, election, fear, political twitter, Research, sentiment, topic models
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Analyzing Co-Occurrences
A common question we hear at Texifter is, “How can one derive co-occurrences in a slice of data?” DiscoverText makes this process relatively easy – when starting with one known variable. For instance, one might like to see which hashtags … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, research
Tagged analysis, analytics, co-occurrences, DiscoverText, hashtags, insight, links, Media, romney, SMA, social, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, statistics, stats, Texifter, tweet, Tweets, twitter, Twitter Analysis, twitter stats, urls
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Sina Weibo Working Group
The Sina Weibo Working Group is off to a wonderful start. We invite other students of Chinese micro-blogging to join the group. All group members receive free, Enterprise individual DiscoverText licenses for active group participation. Contact josh@discovertext.com for more information. … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, research
Tagged Chinese Social Media, methods, micro-blog, Research, Sina Weibo
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Election Analytics Part I: Romney Trends in April
[In the coming months leading up the U.S. presidential election, the Texifter blog will be featuring a multi-part series on various analytical insights into the election, which can be gained by utilizing a host of social media analytics (SMA) methods within … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, research, Twitter
Tagged Active Learning, analytics, API, conservative, Data Mining, DiscoverText, election, Facebook API, gingrich, GNIP, hashtags, liberal, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, newt, newt gingrich, nomination, nomineee, p2, primary, Republican, republican nomination, republican nominee, rnc, romney, Ron Paul, santorum, SMA, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, statistics, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tweets, twitter, Twitter API, Twitter Mining, withnewt
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Weibo Arrives @DiscoverText
After months of user anticipation, the Weibo API is now integrated into DiscoverText, our “do-it-yourself” text analytic solution for deriving insight from unstructured text. With over 300 million users, Weibo is the largest micro-blogging website in China. Its integration into … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, product, research, Twitter
Tagged #bigdata, Active Learning, analytics, API, API Graph, big data, China, Chinese, Chinese Big Data, Chinese media, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, Media, NLP, SMA, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tweets, Twitter API, Twitter Mining, weibo
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Building a Social Sifter
Check out this video introducing our latest experiments creating custom social “sifters” to winnow down a lake of social media data and leave behind only those items that are truly responsive to your search. Great tool, or greatest tool ever? … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, research
Tagged analytics, crowdsourcing, DiscoverText, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, SIFTER, Social Media, social sifter
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Why Try GNIP?
We asked folks signing up for the 2nd GNIP beta using DiscoverText why they were doing it. Here is a nice Wordle showing some of the common themes: We also asked for job titles. No surprise the professors lead the … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, GNIP, research, Twitter
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, GNIP, Klout, Machine Learning, NLP, Power Track, Social Media, social media monitoring, Text Analytics, Tweets, Twitter Mining
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New Facebook Meta Data
DiscoverText is deploying new capabilities to work with geographic information and social media. Part of this work is now centered on Facebook and the Open Graph API. This one-minute video shows some of the new meta data publicly available from … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, research
Tagged API Graph, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, Facebook API, R&D, social media monitoring, Text Analysis
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