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Tag Archives: Data Mining
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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Historical Twitter Prize Winners
Texifter’s most recent historical Twitter prize winners include three from the United States, one from Great Britain, and one from France. Winners receive Enterprise access to DiscoverText for six months, and Sifter credit for up to three historical Twitter days … Continue reading
Posted in general, Twitter
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics, Tweets, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter Mining
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Historical Twitter Prize Drawing
We need beta testers to close out our first year of new product development. Our tool Sifter is used for searching the complete “undeleted” history of Twitter. It allows the user to get a free estimate of the size and cost of … Continue reading
Posted in general, Twitter
Tagged Active Learning, coding, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Research, SIFTER, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, software, Texifter, Tweets, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API, Twitter Mining
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Texifter Social Data and Tools: August 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. These prizes shave thousands of dollars of costs off of your research. The August social data and tools prize winners … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Disqus, GNIP, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tumblr, Tweets, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API, Twitter Mining, WordPress
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Texifter Social Data and Tools: July 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 August drawing is submit a valid historical Twitter estimate request using … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Disqus, GNIP, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tumblr, Tweets, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API, Twitter Mining, WordPress
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Update #1: Sorting the FCC’s Open Internet Public Comments
This is the first update on Texifter’s effort to support the crowd source review of the FCC’s Open Internet (a.k.a. “Net Neutrality”) public comments. Help review and report on what the public has said about the future of the Internet. … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Code Text, coding, Crowd Source, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, FCC, Net Neutrality, Open Internet, Texifter, 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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Texifter News: Migration to Azure and the Big Boulder Initiative
A brief follow up on Texifter. We successfully migrated “DiscoverText” (http://discovertext.com) to Microsoft’s Azure. It was very smooth, though we are going through a period of diminished search and filtering capabilities while the data re-indexes. Otherwise, the other capabilities appear … Continue reading
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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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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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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