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Category Archives: research
Election Analytics Part I: Romney Trends in April
[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
Posted in DiscoverText, research, Twitter
Tagged Active Learning, analytics, API, conservative, Data Mining, DiscoverText, election, Facebook API, gingrich, GNIP, hashtags, liberal, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, newt, newt gingrich, nomination, nomineee, p2, primary, Republican, republican nomination, republican nominee, rnc, romney, Ron Paul, santorum, SMA, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, statistics, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tweets, twitter, Twitter API, Twitter Mining, withnewt
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Weibo Arrives @DiscoverText
After months of user anticipation, the Weibo API is now integrated into DiscoverText, our “do-it-yourself” text analytic solution for deriving insight from unstructured text. With over 300 million users, Weibo is the largest micro-blogging website in China. Its integration into … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, product, research, Twitter
Tagged #bigdata, Active Learning, analytics, API, API Graph, big data, China, Chinese, Chinese Big Data, Chinese media, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, Media, NLP, SMA, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tweets, Twitter API, Twitter Mining, weibo
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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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Why Try GNIP?
We asked folks signing up for the 2nd GNIP beta using DiscoverText why they were doing it. Here is a nice Wordle showing some of the common themes: We also asked for job titles. No surprise the professors lead the … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, GNIP, research, Twitter
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, GNIP, Klout, Machine Learning, NLP, Power Track, Social Media, social media monitoring, Text Analytics, Tweets, Twitter Mining
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New Facebook Meta Data
DiscoverText is deploying new capabilities to work with geographic information and social media. Part of this work is now centered on Facebook and the Open Graph API. This one-minute video shows some of the new meta data publicly available from … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, research
Tagged API Graph, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, Facebook API, R&D, social media monitoring, Text Analysis
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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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Crowdsourcing: the #OBL:-) Project
Tomorrow morning I will present this 5-minute talk at #IR12. If you want the sneak peek, or if you cannot make it to Seattle for the talk, here is your chance to see the results and, more importantly, be a … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, research
Tagged #OBL, Crowdsource, crowdsourcing, humor, methods, Research, tools
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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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Facebook Graph Mysteries
During my recent visit to the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) summer school, hosted by my good friend Richard Rogers, I had the pleasure of spending two days teaching and working with 35 exceptionally bright students who were new to the … Continue reading
Posted in research
Tagged API Graph, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook API, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics
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Text Analysis during the 2011 State of the Union Address
As part of the underlying research Texifter is doing on sentiment and topic analysis, we collected data from various Twitter and Facebook feeds +/- 48 hours during the 2011 State of the Union address on Tuesday, January 25th, 2011. Texifter … Continue reading
Posted in general, research
Tagged API, Congressional Bills, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Obama, R&D, Social Media, State of the Union, Texifter, Text Analytics
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Tracking FEMA Emergency Hashtags
On November 9th, the Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA) conducted its first national test of the Emergency Alert System. In some communities this meant full involvement, with teams responding to mock emergencies, and managers monitoring the execution. In the deaf community, … Continue reading →