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Tag Archives: analytics
Texifter at IHRIM 2012
On May 1st and 2nd, Texifter personnel will be bringing DiscoverText to IHRIM in Chicago, Illinois. The event is the largest gathering of Human Resource (HR) professionals in the country. The meeting facilitates the exchange of new ideas and technologies for use in … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged analytics, DiscoverText, Employee Engagement, HR Analytics, Human Capital, Human Resources, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics
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Building a Social Sifter
Check out this video introducing our latest experiments creating custom social “sifters” to winnow down a lake of social media data and leave behind only those items that are truly responsive to your search. Great tool, or greatest tool ever? … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, research
Tagged analytics, crowdsourcing, DiscoverText, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, SIFTER, Social Media, social sifter
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What is DiscoverText?
A 9-minute high-level overview of DiscoverText. Tweet This Post
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged analytics, API, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, GNIP, Machine Learning, Social Media, social media monitoring, twitter, Twitter API, Twitter Mining, Video
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Holiday Shopping Update
From now until the New Year signals the close of the holiday season, Texifter analysts will focus DiscoverText’s tools on holiday shoppers. We will take a close look at their behavior and sentiment as they hit the stores during the … Continue reading
DiscoverText Introduces Tools for Random Sampling
DiscoverText is rolling-out an addition to its analytical toolkit: random sampling. The Web-service already offers an array of tools for text analytics and rigorous, team-based qualitative data analysis. These functions include the ability to code and annotate text, measure inter-rater … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, general, GNIP, product, research, Twitter
Tagged analytics, API Graph, Bayesian, Bayesian classification, classification, Code Text, coding, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Firehose, Gary King, GNIP, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, methodology, Natural Language Processing, NLP, PowerTrack, Qualitative Data Analysis, random, Random Sample, Random Sampling, Research, research methodology, sample, Sampling, Social Graph, Social Media, social media monitoring, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, twitter, Twitter API
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Apple Shake-Up, Part II: Tweets in Memoriam
On October 5th, the passing of Steve Jobs rocked the world. Millions were touched by the loss of one of the world’s great innovators who has firmly joined the ranks of Guttenberg, Franklin, and Edison. Over the 24 hours following … Continue reading
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Tagged analytics, Apple, Code Text, Data Mining, datamining, death, DiscoverText, GNIP, Jobs, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, Social Media, Steve, Steve Jobs, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tweets, twitter, Twitter API
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GNIP Power Track Tutorial: Getting Started via DiscoverText
This is an 11-minute tutorial covering how you get started using the GNIP Power Track for Twitter (the “full firehose”) to capture large numbers of Tweets for analysis. Tweet This Post
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged analytics, DiscoverText, GNIP, Power Track, Tutorial, Tweets, twitter
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The Crazy Life of a Tweet
On the evening of May 1st, Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. Over the following hours (and days), bin Laden was mentioned by millions across the twitterverse. Among the first of those tweets came from a young, gay, homeschooled … Continue reading
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Tagged #OBL, analytics, API, Bin Laden, Code Text, coding, Crowdsource, crowdsourcing, DiscoverText, Research, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tweets, twitter, Twitter API
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22,348 bin Laden Tweets: Coded!
It took all of three days for 27 individuals from around the country (and maybe the world) to collectively code 22,348 Tweets that mentioned Osama bin Laden, following his assassination. This crowdsourcing feat, sponsored by the Qualitative Data Analysis Program … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, product, research
Tagged analytics, Bin Laden, coding, Crowdsource, DiscoverText, QDAP, Tweets, twitter
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GOP Twitter Benchmarks
PRE-DEBATE (September 1st – September 7th) It’s September again, summer vacations have ended, schools are back in session, and the presidential primary election campaign is in full swing. While Zogby International and Gallup polling may tell you that Perry and Romney … Continue reading
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Tagged analytics, debate, election, GOP, issues, presidential, Republican, Tweets, twitter
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Topic Modeling Using LDA
Prior to the groundbreaking research of Blei, Ng, and Jordan, delivered in a 2002 paper, the world of latent Dirichlet allocation(LDA) was underdeveloped and far from being used in the commercial world. LDA, a powerful statistical learning algorithm, is a … Continue reading
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Tagged analytics, Data Mining, Dirichlet, LDA, model, NLP, topic, unsupervised
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Shaky News Coverage of Libya
This weekend, opposition forces in Libya fought a ground war to oust long-standing dictator Col. Gaddafi. Simultaneously, a global news war also waged, as news sources sought to be the shining star in broadcasting the latest from Tripoli. Some of … Continue reading
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Tagged analytics, DiscoverText, Gaddafi, journalism, Libya, news, R&D, Texifter, twitter
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Rate Limits on Twitter
The evolution of the API opens the door for third-party developers to access information on social media networks. In the best case, this provides a healthy, democratic flow of information. Yesterday, DiscoverText had “rate limits” imposed in terms of its … Continue reading
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Tagged analytics, API, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics, twitter
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Presenting Actionable Insights
Everyday, users of social media miss out on potentially important pieces of information which they seek to find. This problem, which everyone encounters, illustrates a larger conundrum which confronts users of social media; information overload. For those who are not … Continue reading
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Tagged analytics, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, Machine Learning, R&D, Social Media, Texifter, twitter
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Coding Text – Part Two
In Part One of the Series “Coding Text the QDAP Way,” I wrote about the problem of idiosyncratic annotation and the lack of diverse, interesting and re-usable annotated data sets. Providing data for replication (when possible) is a requisite for … Continue reading
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Tagged analytics, Coding Data, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics
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