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Historical Twitter Prize Winners
Texifter’s most recent historical Twitter prize winners include three from the United States, one from Great Britain, and one from France. Winners receive Enterprise access to DiscoverText for six months, and Sifter credit for up to three historical Twitter days … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics, Tweets, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter Mining
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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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Texifter Releasing AC/DC-Inspired Shirts at Big Data TechCon
As a part of exhibiting at Big Data TechCon next week, Texifter will be releasing an AC/DC-inspired t-shirt. Stop by our booth (#302) to get yours while they last! Tweet This Post
Texifter Social Data and Tools: August Prize Winners
As a part of getting new users to test our sifter beta, every month this summer we are awarding 12 #datagrants to academics. These prizes shave thousands of dollars of costs off of your research. The August social data and tools prize winners … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Disqus, GNIP, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tumblr, Tweets, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API, Twitter Mining, WordPress
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Updates: Crowd Sourcing the FCC Open Internet Data
Texifter will post periodic updates here on the efforts to use DiscoverText to crowd source code some of the #NetNuetrality public comment received by the FCC in response to the Open Internet rulemaking effort. Everyone is invited to join in. … Continue reading
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Texifter Social Data and Tools: July Prize Winners
As a part of getting new users to test our sifter beta, every month this summer we are awarding 12 #datagrants to academics. All you need to do to be included in the August drawing is submit a valid historical Twitter estimate request using … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Disqus, GNIP, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tumblr, Tweets, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API, Twitter Mining, WordPress
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Update #1: Sorting the FCC’s Open Internet Public Comments
This is the first update on Texifter’s effort to support the crowd source review of the FCC’s Open Internet (a.k.a. “Net Neutrality”) public comments. Help review and report on what the public has said about the future of the Internet. … Continue reading
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Tagged Code Text, coding, Crowd Source, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, FCC, Net Neutrality, Open Internet, Texifter, 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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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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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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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
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
Open Data on Net Neutrality: Help Crowd Source Analysis of Comments to the FCC
Yesterday the FCC released the public comments on Net Neutrality. The FCC has asked the public to help make “visualizations” to help surface substantive comments and key themes. Quoting the FCC: “We recognize that not everyone may have the requisite technical … Continue reading →