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Tag Archives: Data Mining
Why People Want GNIP’s Power Track Twitter Firehose
We have been delighted with the response to our call for beta testers to try the GNIP-enabled PowerTrack for Twitter. You can still sign up. Round 1 of the beta test concludes on October 31, 2011. Even just testing the … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, GNIP, product, Twitter
Tagged beta test, data, Data Mining, DiscoverText, filter, Firehose, GNIP, Power Track, Research, search, Social Media, twitter
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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
Posted in general
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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Perry Loses Ground Post Debate
Prior to the CNN GOP Primary Debate last Tuesday, October 18, Texifter analysts had been collecting Tweets relating to every major Republican contender since late August. Earlier in the fall, we reported on the number of Tweets per candidate, which … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Bayesian Classifiers, Data Mining, DiscoverText, GOP, Herman Cain, Machine Learning, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Republican Primary, Rick Perry, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analysis, twitter, Twitting Monitoring
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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
The Apple Shake-Up: Part I
For Apple, last week will be remembered as one of its toughest and finest on record, and not just for its tumultuous stock prices, but for the staggering range of emotions that the company evoked throughout the week. The week began with … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Apple, Data Mining, DiscoverText, iOS5, iPhone, IT, Sentiment Analysis, Texifter, Text Analytics
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The OBL Script
#ir12 – IGNITE TALK SCRIPT Slide #1 – Hi I’m Stu and I’m going to talk today about the power of crowds for performing certain tasks. I want to thank Josh Sowalsky for managing this project and drafting the … Continue reading
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Tagged #ir12, #OBL, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Texifter
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Power Track for Twitter
It works! In less than 48 hours, the GNIP-enabled Power track for Twitter has pulled in more than a quarter million Tweets for the rule “Google”: 257, 284 to be precise, but that number changes faster than I can keep … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, GNIP, Klout, Social Media, Texitfer, Text Analytics, 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
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Tagged big data, Bin Laden, coding, collaboration, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, Text Analytics
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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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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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DiscoverText Webinar
Learn to Use DiscoverText – Free Tutorial Webinar Tuesday August 16 at 1:00 PM EST Webinar Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/750225288 This free, live Webinar introduces DiscoverText and key features used to ingest, filter, search & code text. We take your questions and … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Learning, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, Machine Learning, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics, twitter, Webinar
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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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ACUS Calls for ‘Reliable Comment Analysis Software’
In a recent series of recommendations, the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), announced findings under the auspices of “Legal Considerations in e-Rulemaking,” from the Committee on Rulemaking. Having spent more than decade working on e-Rulemaking, I was curious … Continue reading →