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Category Archives: Social Media
Gnip Geo Enhancements for Twitter Data
In a continuing effort to create the best possible methods to sample Twitter data, we testing out a number of Gnip geographical enhancements. For a limited … Continue reading
Posted in GNIP, Social Media, Twitter, Twitter
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Geo, geo locate, geographic information, GNIP, historical Twitter, R&D, Research, Social Media, social media monitoring, Texifter, Twitter Mining
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Twitter’s Complete Index is Live
Twitter recently announced that the indexed data at https://twitter.com/search-advanced would stretch all the way back to the dawn of Twitter’s timeline “between Dec. 30, 2006 and Jan. 2, 2007.” This is an impressive feat representing a massive capability upgrade. This new … Continue reading
Posted in GNIP, Social Media, Texifter, Twitter
Tagged filter, filters, search, Tweets, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API, Twitter Mining
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Historical Twitter: Gnip PowerTrack Filter v2
We are making continual improvements to the sifter beta. Our goal is to develop the best possible user interface for Gnip’s PowerTrack filters when searching for historical Twitter data. Version 2 of the historical Twitter filtering system reflects a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media, Texifter, Twitter, Twitter
Tagged historical Twitter, information retrieval, search, SIFTER, Social Media, social media monitoring, software, Texifter, Twitter Mining
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The Latest Texifter Video Tutorials
To quickly learn the latest about gathering Twitter tweets for research, importing SurveyMonkey data, or using state of the art text analytics tools, check out our most recent Texifter tutorial videos. While they have a bit of a “home brew” … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, product, Social Media
Tagged analytics, Facebook, how-to, Research, Social Media, survey analytics, Text Analytics, Tutorial, twitter, Video
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Texifter Social Data & Tools June Prize Winners
As a part of getting new users to test our sifter beta, every month this summer we are awarding 12 #datagrants to academics. All you need to do to be included in the July drawing is submit a valid historical … Continue reading
Posted in Disqus, research, Social Media, Texifter, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress
Tagged #bigdata, Active Learning, analytics, API, coding, DiscoverText, Disqus, R&D, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, software, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tumblr, Twitter Analysis, Twitter Mining, WordPress
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Texifter is Plugged In to Gnip
We could not be happier to announce that Texifter, a developer of advanced text data analytics software, is partnering with Gnip, the world’s largest provider of social data. Our Plugged In to Gnip partnership certifies Texifter as an industry leader … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, GNIP, Social Media, Texifter
Tagged API, DiscoverText, GNIP, SIFTER, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, software, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics
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Social Data & Tools: Prizes for Academics
Social Data & Tools: Prizes for Academics We felt inspired by the recent #DataGrants experiment sponsored by Twitter that generated more than 1,300 proposals from 60 countries and resulted in six extremely interesting awards. One thing is clear: many more grants … Continue reading
Posted in Disqus, Disqus, Social Media, Texifter, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress
Tagged Code Text, Context, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Disqus, Free, historical Twitter, Prizes, SIFTER, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tumblr, twitter
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Five Pillars of Text Analytics
Document relevance is a key challenge for social media research. The specific problem of “word sense disambiguation” is widespread. If I am interested in “banks” where money is stored, I want to exclude mentions of river banks. If I am … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, product, research, Social Media
Tagged Active Learning, Code Text, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics
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DiscoverText: A Vital Research Tool for Social Media
I’ve been using DiscoverText for several years, primarily in an academic research capacity but also working with journalists to help them reach broader audiences through social media. From an academic standpoint, DiscoverText was the backbone of collecting Facebook and Twitter … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, product, research, Social Media, Twitter
Tagged DiscoverText, Facebook, Research, Social Media Analytics, software, twitter, Twitter Mining
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DiscoverText as a Teaching and Research Tool
Conducting research on the impact of large projects and events is difficult as each undertaking is unique. Traditional quantitative techniques face limitations of internal validity while qualitative research faces challenges of external validity. However, projects and events generate a massive … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, general, research, Twitter
Tagged DiscoverText, Facebook, Research, Social Media, Teaching, twitter
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Sifter – Search the Complete (Un-Deleted) History of Twitter
We could not be happier about the initial response to the beta test of “Sifter” (http://sifter.texifter.com), a self-serve tool to get free estimates of the cost to pull samples from the complete (un-deleted) history of Twitter. Using the powerful Gnip-enabled … Continue reading
Posted in GNIP, Social Media, Twitter
Tagged API, Data Mining, GNIP, historical Twitter, Social Media, Tweets, twitter, Twitter API
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Collecting Facebook & Twitter Data
This is an updated 4-minute tutorial on how to collect public Facebook data via the Open Graph API using DiscoverText. This is an even shorter 75-second tutorial on how to collect Twitter data via the public API. Tweet This Post
Posted in API, Facebook, Social Media, Twitter, Twitter
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, software, Texifter, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API, Twitter Mining
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Digital Methods Initiative Winter 2014 Slides
It was a great joy to return to the University of Amsterdam and give this talk to my old friend Richard Rogers and his 100+ attentive workshop attendees. Tweet This Post
Win Historical Twitter Datasets
Just about six hours left to win valuable historical twitter datasets and powerful text analytics software. This is by far our best Facebook raffle yet. To enter: Login to Facebook Visit this URL: http://bit.ly/1421tWP Tweet about the raffle, follow DiscoverText on Twitter, … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, product, Social Media, Twitter
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, GNIP, PowerTrack, Research, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, software, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tweets, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API, Twitter Mining
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Gnip Power Track Expansion
It’s official. Starting in January 2013, DiscoverText customers will be able to purchase monthly access to four vibrant Gnip-enabled Power Track data feeds. Building on current successes with Twitter, we are pleased to offer unprecedented federated Power Track access to … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Disqus, GNIP, Social Media, Tumblr, Twitter, Twitter, WordPress
Tagged DiscoverText, Disqus, GNIP, Tumblr, twitter, WordPress
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