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Tag Archives: Research
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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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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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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Shout Out to Boston New Tech Meetup #BNT19
A big thanks goes out to the organizers of the Boston New Technology Meetup, held at the Microsoft NERD Center on Tuesday, July 25th (#BNT19). The Citigroup-sponsored event gathered a nice crowd of entrepreneurs, technologists, and start-up enthusiasts, all of whom … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, Texifter
Tagged DiscoverText, Google, HR Analytics, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, Research, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Twitter Analysis
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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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Browsing “Disqus” Clusters
We are experimenting with the new “Disqus” API in house. In this video, I show results from a 5-day query against the public API for the term Syria. The 50,000+ results are drawn from a variety of mass media discussion … Continue reading
Posted in API, DiscoverText, Disqus, product
Tagged clustering, de-duplication, DiscoverText, Disqus, Disqus API, political activism, Research, Social Media, Syria
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Archiving Google+
As part of developing our suite of live feed options, we are currently beta testing a new Google+ API. If you would like to join the beta group, let us know. This video outlines the way we have set it … Continue reading
DiscoverText Introduces Tools for Random Sampling
DiscoverText is rolling-out an addition to its analytical toolkit: random sampling. The Web-service already offers an array of tools for text analytics and rigorous, team-based qualitative data analysis. These functions include the ability to code and annotate text, measure inter-rater … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, general, GNIP, product, research, Twitter
Tagged analytics, API Graph, Bayesian, Bayesian classification, classification, Code Text, coding, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Firehose, Gary King, GNIP, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, methodology, Natural Language Processing, NLP, PowerTrack, Qualitative Data Analysis, random, Random Sample, Random Sampling, Research, research methodology, sample, Sampling, Social Graph, Social Media, social media monitoring, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, twitter, Twitter API
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Why People Want GNIP’s Power Track Twitter Firehose
We have been delighted with the response to our call for beta testers to try the GNIP-enabled PowerTrack for Twitter. You can still sign up. Round 1 of the beta test concludes on October 31, 2011. Even just testing the … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, GNIP, product, Twitter
Tagged beta test, data, Data Mining, DiscoverText, filter, Firehose, GNIP, Power Track, Research, search, Social Media, twitter
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The Crazy Life of a Tweet
On the evening of May 1st, Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. Over the following hours (and days), bin Laden was mentioned by millions across the twitterverse. Among the first of those tweets came from a young, gay, homeschooled … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged #OBL, analytics, API, Bin Laden, Code Text, coding, Crowdsource, crowdsourcing, DiscoverText, Research, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tweets, twitter, Twitter API
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Crowdsourcing: the #OBL:-) Project
Tomorrow morning I will present this 5-minute talk at #IR12. If you want the sneak peek, or if you cannot make it to Seattle for the talk, here is your chance to see the results and, more importantly, be a … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, research
Tagged #OBL, Crowdsource, crowdsourcing, humor, methods, Research, tools
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DiscoverText + GNIP + Klout = Analytic Power
On October 1st, Texifter staff will begin testing the GNIP Firehose for Twitter, which delivers 100% of the Tweets you want, based on the criteria which users provide. This is a remarkable tool and will greatly contribute to the evolution … Continue reading
PowerTrack for Twitter
DiscoverText is preparing to launch a short and exclusive beta test period using “PowerTrack for Twitter Firehose Filtering” a service provided by GNIP. Compared to the “rate limited” service offered by DiscoverText through the public Twitter API, the “Full Firehose” … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged archiving, datamining, DiscoverText, Firehose, GNIP, PowerTrack, Research, Tweets, twitter
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