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Tag Archives: R&D
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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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 DiscoverText, Disqus, GNIP, HR Analytics, Machine Classifiers, PowerTrack, R&D, Research, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, software, Texifter, Text Analytics, Twitter Mining, WordPress
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Coding Off a List
We are always looking for ways to speed up the process of creating accurate custom machine classifiers. Coding off a list is one such method. This video demonstrates a simple approach that can be applied to a variety of text … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general
Tagged Code Text, coding, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, R&D, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics
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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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Shaky News Coverage of Libya
This weekend, opposition forces in Libya fought a ground war to oust long-standing dictator Col. Gaddafi. Simultaneously, a global news war also waged, as news sources sought to be the shining star in broadcasting the latest from Tripoli. Some of … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged analytics, DiscoverText, Gaddafi, journalism, Libya, news, R&D, Texifter, twitter
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Presenting Actionable Insights
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
Posted in general
Tagged analytics, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, Machine Learning, R&D, Social Media, Texifter, twitter
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Klout Marketing by Spotify
In Q1 of this year, serious internet chatter surfaced about the possibility of popular Swedish online streaming music service Spotify launching in the U.S. Spotify is a tantalizing proposition for the American media consumer. While there are costs incurred, the service … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Internet Markting, Klout, Machine Learning, Pandora, R&D, Social Media, Spotify, statistics, Streaming Music, Texifter, Text anaytics, twitter
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1.2 Million “osama” & “bin laden” Tweets…and Counting
On the May 1, 2011 evening it was announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed, we started running repeated fetches against the Twitter API for the terms “osama” and “bin laden”. On May 3, we posted more than 1.2 … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Bin Laden, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, R&D, Text Analytics, Twistory, Twitter API
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Scraping Facebook
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
Posted in general
Tagged API, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, Facebook API, Machine Learning, R&D, Social Media
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Text Analysis during the 2011 State of the Union Address
As part of the underlying research Texifter is doing on sentiment and topic analysis, we collected data from various Twitter and Facebook feeds +/- 48 hours during the 2011 State of the Union address on Tuesday, January 25th, 2011. Texifter … Continue reading
Posted in general, research
Tagged API, Congressional Bills, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Obama, R&D, Social Media, State of the Union, Texifter, Text Analytics
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