Category Archives: DiscoverText

Heat Maps Arrive

 Posted on September 27, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

 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 →

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Coders Needed!

 Posted on August 27, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

We are building up a pool of coders for some new projects. If you are good at labeling text this may be an excellent opportunity for you. Graduate students are particularly welcome to join the pool. Coders accepted into the … Continue reading →

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Twitter Fire Hose Access: Never Miss a Tweet

 Posted on August 25, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

Just in time for the 2012 GOP convention, we are running a special offer to provide full Twitter fire hose access via the Gnip-enabled Power Track for Twitter: Never miss a tweet. Full coverage with no rate limits. Powerful search … Continue reading →

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Election Special: Gnip Power Track Access Fee Cut in Half

 Posted on August 25, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

Memo to: Political Junkies, Researchers, and Journalists Subject: 2012 GOP Convention Would you like every tweet from @GOPconvention, #RNC2012, #Romney, #TeaParty, or any person whose Twitter bio contains “Romney”? These are just a few of the possible queries you can … Continue reading →

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Using the CloudExplorer

 Posted on August 21, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

Tag clouds have gained popularity as a short cut to discovery of frequently occurring terms in a text collection. Much of the inspiration comes from the remarkable Wordle site at http://www.wordle.net. Building on that inspiration, we engineered an interactive word … Continue reading →

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Interactive Custom Machine Classifier Histograms

 Posted on August 17, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

This is the latest DiscoverText filtering feature designed to speed up the creation of accurate custom machine classifiers. This video shows how we use an interactive display of classifier scores to isolate items in a dataset that require further human … Continue reading →

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Start-up Showcase

 Posted on August 2, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

Joe and I had fun fielding questions, passing out literature and giving away DiscoverText t-shirts. Many thanks once again for the excellent facilities and services from our MassChallenge hosts. We met some leaders of cool start-ups, a number of interesting … Continue reading →

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Shout Out to Boston New Tech Meetup #BNT19

 Posted on July 25, 2012 by Joseph Delfino

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 →

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Coding Off a List

 Posted on July 1, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

We are always looking for ways to speed up the process of creating accurate custom machine classifiers. Coding off a list is one such method. This video demonstrates a simple approach that can be applied to a variety of text … Continue reading →

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Analyzing Co-Occurrences

 Posted on May 22, 2012 by Josh Sowalsky

A common question we hear at Texifter is, “How can one derive co-occurrences in a slice of data?” DiscoverText makes this process relatively easy – when starting with one known variable. For instance, one might like to see which hashtags … Continue reading →

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Using Twitter Bios & GNIP Rules to Find Domain Specific Twitter Users and Important Tweets

 Posted on May 18, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

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Sina Weibo Working Group

 Posted on May 5, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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Election Analytics Part I: Romney Trends in April

 Posted on May 5, 2012 by Josh Sowalsky

[In the coming  months leading up the U.S. presidential election, the Texifter blog will be featuring a multi-part series on various analytical insights into the election, which can be gained by utilizing a host of social media analytics (SMA) methods within … Continue reading →

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What do people “Disqus” about Syria?

 Posted on May 4, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

I have a “Disqus” feed going on Syria. The “TopMeta” shows the distribution of online forum sources. Click on the image to see it full-size. Below is a visualization of the most frequently non-stop words based on an archive of … Continue reading →

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