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Tag Archives: social media monitoring
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 Active Learning, analytics, Code Text, coding, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Disqus, Facebook, Facebook API, GNIP, Google, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, Social Media, social media monitoring, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, twitter, Twitter Analysis, 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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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 API, GNIP, PowerTrack, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, Texifter, Text Analytics, Twitter Mining
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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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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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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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What is DiscoverText?
A 9-minute high-level overview of DiscoverText. Tweet This Post
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged analytics, API, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, GNIP, Machine Learning, Social Media, social media monitoring, twitter, Twitter API, Twitter Mining, Video
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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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Archiving Public Facebook Content: Technical & Legal Issues
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
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, product
Tagged API, archiving, DiscoverText, Facebook, Social Media, social media monitoring
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Mining for Leads
Texifter is pioneering the use of machine-learning methods to harvest essential information from unstructured social media data. For example, Twitter feeds can generate top line and bottom line growth. This requires a text analysis tool that moves beyond simply displaying … Continue reading

Disqus API is Live!
DiscoverText is pleased to announce it has added Disqus to its repertoire of APIs for harvesting content produced online. Disqus, the world’s largest comment platform operator, has over 70 million users who produce roughly 500,000 comments per day. There are … Continue reading →