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Category Archives: DiscoverText
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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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 is Plugged In to Gnip
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
Posted in DiscoverText, GNIP, Social Media, Texifter
Tagged API, DiscoverText, GNIP, SIFTER, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, software, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics
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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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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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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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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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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
Posted in DiscoverText, product, Texifter
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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Fear and Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail
Hurricane Sandy kept me from giving this talk titled “Fear & Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail” in San Francisco, so here is it via a Screencast. Tweet This Post
Posted in DiscoverText, research, Social Media
Tagged Active Learning, Code Text, coding, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, election, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, software, Text Analytics
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Complete History of Twitter Now Available via GNIP
Texifter was the first company to join as a paying customer in the alpha “Snapshot” offering from Gnip. You can still take part in that alpha by submitting a request for a free estimate of a snapshot from Twitter’s complete … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, GNIP, Social Media, Texifter, Twitter
Tagged API, GNIP, PowerTrack, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, Texifter, Text Analytics, Twitter Mining
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