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Tag Archives: coding
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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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
Posted in general
Tagged Code Text, coding, Crowd Source, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, FCC, Net Neutrality, Open Internet, Texifter, Text Analytics
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Texifter Social Data & Tools June 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 July drawing is submit a valid historical … Continue reading
Posted in Disqus, research, Social Media, Texifter, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress
Tagged #bigdata, Active Learning, analytics, API, coding, DiscoverText, Disqus, R&D, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, software, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tumblr, Twitter Analysis, Twitter Mining, WordPress
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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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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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Hunting Political Fear
The R&D team has been preparing an academic basic research talk I will make at the October 30, 2012 Sentiment Analysis Symposium. The title is “Fear and Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail” and we have been working with a … Continue reading
Posted in research, Social Media
Tagged Active Learning, coding, Data Mining, fear, Politics, Social Media, software, statistics, Text Analytics
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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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Coders Needed!
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
Posted in DiscoverText, general, research
Tagged coding, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, Machine Learning, social media monitoring, statistics, Texifter, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API
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Coding Off a List
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
Posted in DiscoverText, general
Tagged Code Text, coding, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, R&D, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics
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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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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
Posted in general
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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Crowdsourcing bin Laden Humor
This Saturday, Texifter will begin its first foray into crowdsourcing, the relatively new phenomenon made possible by complex and fast information networks. Crowdsourcing seeks to tap the collective intellect of a large group to find a result instead of relying … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged big data, Bin Laden, coding, collaboration, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, Text Analytics
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