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Author Archives: Stuart Shulman
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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Big Data TechCon
@BigDataTechCon! Join us at the @texifter booth for #free Ghirardelli chocolates, salty nuts, #textanalytics, and t-shirts. — Stu Shulman (@StuartWShulman) April 1, 2014 Tweet This Post
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Tools for Text – Lecture at Northeastern University Monday March 10, 2014
Tools for Text Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder & CEO of Texifter Research Associate Professor of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 12pm – 1:15pm, Monday, March 10 Center for Complex Network Research 5th floor Dana Building, Northeastern University (take elevator … Continue reading
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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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New Product Testing – TwitterSifter.com
Update 2.12.2014 The beta has been renamed Sifter and moved to http://sifter.texifter.com. Exciting new beta launch of http://t.co/BDeQkNnIsG featuring free historical twitter estimates @gnip pic.twitter.com/TXfOSFpmxf — DiscoverText (@discovertext) January 14, 2014 Tweet This Post
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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
Free Gnip-enabled Historical Twitter Estimates
Use search and powerful @Gnip Power Track operators to find the exact slice of Twitter history that you need. Tweet This Post
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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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DiscoverText Sweepstakes
SIOP 2013 DiscoverText Sweepstakes Win One Free Year of DiscoverText Enterprise Individual Access I would like to invite you to enter the SIOP 2013 DiscoverText Sweepstakes. All you need to do is sign up online for a free, 30-day, no obligation trial: https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial It … Continue reading
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Joining Vision Critical: Reflections of an Inventor
As of today, DiscoverText is part of a larger company: Vision Critical, a market research technology provider that works with more than a third of the world’s top 100 brands. The thrill of joining a successful and growing firm headquartered … Continue reading
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Tagged DiscoverText, Text Analytics, Vision Critical
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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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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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