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Tag Archives: Research
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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Scholarly Mentions of DiscoverText
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
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged acadeic, ARENA, citations, DiscoverText, European Integration, Google Scholar, Internet, R&D, Research, scholarly, software
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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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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 Announces Strategic Partnership with SurveyMonkey
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
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged analysis, data, DiscoverText, Research, surve, Survey Analysis, SurveyMonkey, surveys, Text Analytics
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School Bullying Research Using DiscoverText
Our Vanderbilt University team uses DiscoverText (DT) to support qualitative text analysis of 8,531 high school students’ responses about their in-school experiences of bullying. DiscoverText has offered us powerful ways to perform key steps throughout our coding process. Fundamentally, DT … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, research
Tagged bullying, coding, data, inter-rater reliability, kappa, measurement, methods, Qualitative, Research, research methodology
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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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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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Texifter and Columbia University Launch New Gnip Data Feeds
AMHERST, MA, November 15, 2012 New collaboration brings greater social data coverage to research, education, and commercial users. Texifter, a text analytics start-up, is launching access to two new major blog data streams as part of its collaboration with Columbia … Continue reading
Posted in general, Texifter
Tagged DiscoverText, Disqus, GNIP, HR Analytics, Machine Classifiers, PowerTrack, R&D, Research, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, software, Texifter, Text Analytics, Twitter Mining, WordPress
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Heat Maps Arrive
We are thrilled with the response to v1 of our heat map tools, which provide a unique glimpse into the nature and scope of inter-coder agreement in DiscoverText. This video introduces the beta version of the tool. Overtime, the tool … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, product, research
Tagged coding, DiscoverText, Heatmaps, inter-rater reliability, Research, statistics
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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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Shout Out to Boston New Tech Meetup #BNT19
A big thanks goes out to the organizers of the Boston New Technology Meetup, held at the Microsoft NERD Center on Tuesday, July 25th (#BNT19). The Citigroup-sponsored event gathered a nice crowd of entrepreneurs, technologists, and start-up enthusiasts, all of whom … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, Texifter
Tagged DiscoverText, Google, HR Analytics, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, Research, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Twitter Analysis
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Sina Weibo Working Group
The Sina Weibo Working Group is off to a wonderful start. We invite other students of Chinese micro-blogging to join the group. All group members receive free, Enterprise individual DiscoverText licenses for active group participation. Contact josh@discovertext.com for more information. … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, research
Tagged Chinese Social Media, methods, micro-blog, Research, Sina Weibo
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Browsing “Disqus” Clusters
We are experimenting with the new “Disqus” API in house. In this video, I show results from a 5-day query against the public API for the term Syria. The 50,000+ results are drawn from a variety of mass media discussion … Continue reading
Posted in API, DiscoverText, Disqus, product
Tagged clustering, de-duplication, DiscoverText, Disqus, Disqus API, political activism, Research, Social Media, Syria
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