Tag Archives: Facebook

Tutorial Videos

 Posted on November 19, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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Coders Needed!

 Posted on August 27, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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New Facebook Meta Data

 Posted on February 9, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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What is DiscoverText?

 Posted on December 20, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

A 9-minute high-level overview of DiscoverText. Tweet This Post

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Visiting Google & Facebook

 Posted on November 17, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

Thanks to some excellent ground work by Joe Delfino and Sean Kelleher, Joe, Sean & I were able to make a pilgrimage to Google, Facebook & Reputation.com for a wildly exciting day of briefings with Q&A. While I’d love to … Continue reading →

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Archiving Public Facebook Content: Technical & Legal Issues

 Posted on October 27, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

This is an updated version of a very popular early video. It describes some of the technical and legal issues when you “Connect” with Facebook credentials to DiscoverText. The video offers instructions about privacy and demonstrates how you can use … Continue reading →

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Presenting Actionable Insights

 Posted on August 16, 2011 by Joseph Delfino

Everyday, users of social media miss out on potentially important pieces of information which they seek to find. This problem, which everyone encounters, illustrates a larger conundrum which confronts users of social media; information overload. For those who are not … Continue reading →

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DiscoverText Webinar

 Posted on August 14, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

Learn to Use DiscoverText – Free Tutorial Webinar Tuesday August 16 at 1:00 PM EST Webinar Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/750225288 This free, live Webinar introduces DiscoverText and key features used to ingest, filter, search & code text. We take your questions and … Continue reading →

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Hurtigruten: A Norwegian Social Media Phenomenon

 Posted on July 29, 2011 by Josh Sowalsky

Here at Texifter, we are regularly impressed by the many ways in which our increasing number of end-users discover new ways to apply DiscoverText’s capabilities to their own research. With each new success story, we are – once again – … Continue reading →

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Capturing Social Media Dissent

 Posted on July 9, 2011 by Joseph Delfino

Immediately after the judge read the not guilty verdict in the high profile Casey Anthony criminal case, total internet traffic to major news outlets doubled, and most importantly, outsiders took to social media outlets to display their emotions and opinions. … Continue reading →

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Monitor Middle East Protests

 Posted on July 3, 2011 by Josh Sowalsky

Dear faithful users and intrigued future users of DiscoverText, My name’s Josh and I’m one of 3 user support specialists at Texifter LLC. For my first Texifter blog entry, I’m going to demonstrate how I’ve been using DiscoverText to capture … Continue reading →

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70,000 Game of Thrones Tweets

 Posted on June 17, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

I wanted to test the new Cloud Explorer developed by Texifter as part of the DiscoverText suite of text analysis tools. Since the revisions to the old tag cloud tool were inspired by comments from a Game of Thrones fan, … Continue reading →

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Search All Public Facebook Posts

 Posted on June 16, 2011 by Mark J. Hoy

All this week, we’ve been highlighting some of the new features and functionality recently added to DiscoverText. Tonight, Texifter staff is excited to present the ability to search across all available public Facebook posts and pull those comments into a … Continue reading →

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Connect Existing Facebook & DiscoverText Accounts

 Posted on May 24, 2011 by Mark J. Hoy

Many people have asked us “How to I import Facebook data if I have a regular DiscoverText Account?” – The short answer is that there is no way to pull in Facebook feeds within DiscoverText unless you register and login … Continue reading →

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Scraping Facebook

 Posted on April 20, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

Using a core element of the Facebook architecture (the “Graph API”), we have enabled DiscoverText users to “Connect with Facebook” to register their new accounts. You can learn about this option and how to collect data off Facebook by watching … Continue reading →

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