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Category Archives: Facebook
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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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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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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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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Visiting Google & Facebook
Thanks to some excellent ground work by Joe Delfino and Sean Kelleher, Joe, Sean & I were able to make a pilgrimage to Google, Facebook & Reputation.com for a wildly exciting day of briefings with Q&A. While I’d love to … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, general
Tagged DiscoverText, Entrpreurship, Facebook, Google, Silicon Valley, Startup, Texifter
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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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