Tag Archives: DiscoverText

Scholarly Mentions of DiscoverText

 Posted on January 26, 2015 by Stuart Shulman

There are now 40+ scholarly mentions of the role DiscoverText plays in research. We find them on Google scholar. We would be very grateful if you publish a conference paper, an article, or a book, please send us a note … Continue reading →

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Historical Twitter Prize Winners

 Posted on January 20, 2015 by amywu

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 →

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Texifter Social Data and Tools: August Prize Winners

 Posted on September 5, 2014 by Lead Technical Writer

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 →

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Texifter Social Data and Tools: July Prize Winners

 Posted on August 9, 2014 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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Update #1: Sorting the FCC’s Open Internet Public Comments

 Posted on August 7, 2014 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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Open Data on Net Neutrality: Help Crowd Source Analysis of Comments to the FCC

 Posted on August 6, 2014 by Stuart Shulman

Yesterday the FCC released the public comments on Net Neutrality. The FCC has asked the public to help make “visualizations” to help surface substantive comments and key themes. Quoting the FCC: “We recognize that not everyone may have the requisite technical … Continue reading →

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Texifter Social Data & Tools June Prize Winners

 Posted on July 7, 2014 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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Texifter is Plugged In to Gnip

 Posted on June 12, 2014 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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Texifter Announces Strategic Partnership with SurveyMonkey

 Posted on May 27, 2014 by Stuart Shulman

Texifter Announces Strategic Partnership with SurveyMonkey to Improve Survey Data Analytics Combining the power and versatility of Texifter’s DiscoverText analytics with the reach of the world’s largest survey website. AMHERST, MA., May 27 2014—Texifter, a developer of social data and … Continue reading →

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Five Pillars of Text Analytics

 Posted on April 25, 2014 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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DiscoverText: A Vital Research Tool for Social Media

 Posted on March 27, 2014 by Jacob Groshek

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 →

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DiscoverText as a Teaching and Research Tool

 Posted on March 18, 2014 by Nigel Williams

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 →

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Texifter News: Migration to Azure and the Big Boulder Initiative

 Posted on March 5, 2014 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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