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Author Archives: Joseph Delfino
Mining for Leads
Texifter is pioneering the use of machine-learning methods to harvest essential information from unstructured social media data. For example, Twitter feeds can generate top line and bottom line growth. This requires a text analysis tool that moves beyond simply displaying … Continue reading
Bin Laden Tweets Take Center Stage at AoIR
On Tuesday, October 11th, Texifter Founder and CEO, Stu Shulman, will be attending the annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Seattle, Washington. The Twelfth Annual AoIR Conference (you can follow it on Twitter @ #IR12) brings together … Continue reading
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Tagged AoIR, Bin Laden, crowdsourcing, data ming, DiscoverText, ignite talks, QDAP, Social Media, Texifter, twitter
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DiscoverText + GNIP + Klout = Analytic Power
On October 1st, Texifter staff will begin testing the GNIP Firehose for Twitter, which delivers 100% of the Tweets you want, based on the criteria which users provide. This is a remarkable tool and will greatly contribute to the evolution … Continue reading
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
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Tagged big data, Bin Laden, coding, collaboration, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, Text Analytics
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Major Functionality Updates
Thanks to our superb development staff, Texifter has launched new updates to DiscoverText on both the front-end and back-end. The updates unlock a new level of speed, interactivity, and functionality. Overall, the updates enhance user’s ability to mine data for with … Continue reading
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Tagged charts, DiscoverText, graphs, SIFTER, software, visualization, Web
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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
Posted in DiscoverText, product
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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Klout Marketing by Spotify
In Q1 of this year, serious internet chatter surfaced about the possibility of popular Swedish online streaming music service Spotify launching in the U.S. Spotify is a tantalizing proposition for the American media consumer. While there are costs incurred, the service … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Internet Markting, Klout, Machine Learning, Pandora, R&D, Social Media, Spotify, statistics, Streaming Music, Texifter, Text anaytics, twitter
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Twitter Opinion on Debt Ceiling
LATEST TWITTER OPINION POLLS REGARDING THE DEBT CEILING: (CONSISTENT WITH ZOGBY POLL NUMBERS) Here’s how we got there…. Since the debt ceiling fiasco began, nation-wide outrage toward Washington has been at an all time high. Naturally, here at Texifter, we … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Mining, Debt Ceiling, Democrat, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Politics, Republican, Social Media, Tea Party, Texifter, Text Analytics, Zogby Polls
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Bin Laden, Oil & Foreign Policy
Immediately following President Obama’s speech on the evening of May 1 confirming the execution of Osama bin Laden, the DiscoverText team began collecting all twitter posts which contained the key words “Osama,” and “Bin Laden.” The bin Laden project collected … Continue reading
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Tagged Bin Laden, Classifiers, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Foreign Policy, Machine Learning, Oil, Politics, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analysis, twitter
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Capturing Social Media Dissent
Immediately after the judge read the not guilty verdict in the high profile Casey Anthony criminal case, total internet traffic to major news outlets doubled, and most importantly, outsiders took to social media outlets to display their emotions and opinions. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trial, Facebook, Public Dissent, Social Media, twitter
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Making Sense of ESPN Tweets
Should you ever want to visualize the definition of “unstructured data”, there is no need to look beyond the beautiful chaos that is 503,000 ESPN tweets all harvested using DiscoverText. It would be an understatement to call an archive of … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, ESPN, Machine Learning, Sports Classifier, Texifter, Text Analytics, Unstructured Data
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