Tag Archives: Machine Learning

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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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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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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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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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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Watch a DiscoverText Webinar

We have been holding Webinars for the last few years as a way to get the word out about our software, but also to learn about the issues people are having gathering, organizing, filtering, searching, coding and analyzing text data. … Continue reading

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A Classifier for the Masses

DiscoverText took a leap forward a few weeks ago with the addition of a beta text classifier from the developers over at uClassify (www.uclassify.com). Integration of this tool into a one-of-a-kind active-learning system inside DiscoverText allows users to create and … Continue reading

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Download the Recent DiscoverText Webinar

For the next 14 days, you can download and replay the entire 145 MB DiscoverText Webinar. Your PC may require a Codec from GoToMeeting to play the file properly. Many thanks to Stranded Wind for a very generous evaluation! Tweet … Continue reading

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Next Free DiscoverText Webinar Tuesday 12 PM EST

Register here for the next live, free, interactive training Webinar with Dr. Shulman. This Webinar introduces new and existing DiscoverText users to the basic document ingest, search & code features, takes your questions, and demonstrates our newest tool, a machine-learning … Continue reading

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Coding Text – Part Three

Researchers interested in large text collections and their itinerant coders tend to muddle through with limited collaborative, cross-disciplinary resources upon which to draw. The generic criteria for high-quality codebook construction and effective coding are underdeveloped, even as the tools and … Continue reading

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Coding Text – Part Two

In Part One of the Series “Coding Text the QDAP Way,” I wrote about the problem of idiosyncratic annotation and the lack of diverse, interesting and re-usable annotated data sets. Providing data for replication (when possible) is a requisite for … Continue reading

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Coding Text Using the “QDAP Method” – Part One

We did it! The free, open source, Web-based, university-hosted, FISMA-compliant “Coding Analysis Toolkit” CAT recorded its one millionth coding choice. Pretty much all the credit goes to Texifter CTO and chief CAT architect Mark Hoy who has put in many … Continue reading

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1.2 Million “osama” & “bin laden” Tweets…and Counting

On the May 1, 2011 evening it was announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed, we started running repeated fetches against the Twitter API for the terms “osama” and “bin laden”. On May 3, we posted more than 1.2 … Continue reading

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Harvesting Twitter Tweets

Using the Twitter API, we have made it easy to archive massive numbers of Twitter tweets. This short video demonstrates just how easy we have made it for you to do research on Twitter. Tweet This Post

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Scraping Facebook

Using a core element of the Facebook architecture (the “Graph API”), we have enabled DiscoverText users to “Connect with Facebook” to register their new accounts. You can learn about this option and how to collect data off Facebook by watching … Continue reading

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