Category Archives: DiscoverText

Texifter @ #IHRIMconf

 Posted on May 3, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

Most of the company came to Chicago this week to make our debut presenting and exhibiting at IHRIM, an international meeting for Human Resources professionals. We were pleasantly surprised to find we were the only text analytics firm making a … Continue reading →

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“You Don’t Say”

 Posted on April 19, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

 I am looking forward to making a joint presentation with JetBlue employee Jeremy Kasle at the upcoming 2012 SIOP conference in San Diego, CA. Our panel also has experts from Dell & Google and we anticipate sharing best practices with … Continue reading →

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The DiscoverText API

 Posted on April 4, 2012 by Mark J. Hoy

Many have asked for it, and your requests have not fallen on deaf ears. We are proud to announce the DiscoverText development team is testing an Application Programming Interface (API) to our internal “sifter” data structures. The new DiscoverText API … Continue reading →

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Machine Translate Archives

 Posted on March 28, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

I’ve been experimenting with our machine translation beta and the new Sina Weibo feed. For example, I have a small archive responsive to the search 柳时元. (Note: you can click on either image to see a full size close up … Continue reading →

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Tracking Anti-Smoking Campaign Effects Online

 Posted on March 27, 2012 by Glen Szczypka

The use of social media has grown exponentially over the last several years.  In fact, most television programs and televised advertising have a social media component, designed to expand reach and engagement with the audience.   To date, the tobacco control … Continue reading →

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Browsing “Disqus” Clusters

 Posted on March 25, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

We are experimenting with the new “Disqus” API in house. In this video, I show results from a 5-day query against the public API for the term Syria. The 50,000+ results are drawn from a variety of mass media discussion … Continue reading →

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Weibo Arrives @DiscoverText

 Posted on March 20, 2012 by Josh Sowalsky

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 →

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Texifter in 60 Seconds

 Posted on March 5, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

This is v1 of the 60-second Texifter elevator pitch. Feedback and questions are truly welcome. Just email stu@texifter.com. ~Thanks!   Tweet This Post

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Building a Social Sifter

 Posted on March 5, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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Why Try GNIP?

 Posted on March 1, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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New Facebook Meta Data

 Posted on February 9, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

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 →

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Get the Twitter Fat Pipe

 Posted on February 2, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

Texifter is launching a second beta test period using “Power Track for Twitter” fire hose filtering a service provided by GNIP. We have streamlined the process of providing Enterprise class access to the beta test. This beta includes access to … Continue reading →

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Tracking FEMA Emergency Hashtags

 Posted on January 27, 2012 by Joseph Delfino

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 →

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What is DiscoverText?

 Posted on December 20, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

A 9-minute high-level overview of DiscoverText. Tweet This Post

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Holiday Shopping Update

 Posted on November 24, 2011 by Joseph Delfino

Week 3 Due to a busy week in California, and preparations for Amsterdam, I am going to skip right to Week 3 of the Holiday Shopping Updates, meaning analysis for the dates November 13-20. In our first analysis, we captured … Continue reading →

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