Author Archives: Stuart Shulman

About Stuart Shulman

Stuart Shulman is a political science professor, software inventor, entrepreneur, and garlic growing enthusiast who coaches U13 boys club soccer and in the Olympic Development Program with a national D-license. He is Founder & CEO of Texifter, LLC, Director of QDAP-UMass, and Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Stu is the proud owner of a Bernese/Shepherd named "Colbert" who is much better known as 'Bert. You can follow his exploits @stuartwshulman.

Texifter and Columbia University Launch New Gnip Data Feeds

 Posted on November 16, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

AMHERST, MA, November 15, 2012 New collaboration brings greater social data coverage to research, education, and commercial users. Texifter, a text analytics start-up, is launching access to two new major blog data streams as part of its collaboration with Columbia … Continue reading →

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Fear and Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail

 Posted on October 30, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

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

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What are your customers thinking?

 Posted on October 16, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

“The October 30, 2012 Sentiment Analysis Symposium in San Francisco will be the 5th instance of a premier business-focused conference, the only conference that will teach you about technology and solutions that help you discover business value in opinions, emotions, … Continue reading →

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Hunting Political Fear

 Posted on October 3, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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Complete History of Twitter Now Available via GNIP

 Posted on September 28, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

Texifter was the first company to join as a paying customer in the alpha “Snapshot” offering from Gnip. You can still take part in that alpha by submitting a request for a free estimate of a snapshot from Twitter’s complete … Continue reading →

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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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Chasing the Social Media Data Trail – Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

 Posted on September 12, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

I really like the effort Jeremy Harris Lipschultz put into preparing this panel, recording it with a small hand held device, making edits, and producing a polished video and blog post. Early attempts to list useful social media metrics quit … 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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Boston New Technology Meetup July 2012 #bnt19

 Posted on July 21, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

Come learn about 6 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A. Looks like a full house for this Citibank-sponsored event, and @Texifter … Continue reading →

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