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.

Coding Off a List

 Posted on July 1, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

We are always looking for ways to speed up the process of creating accurate custom machine classifiers. Coding off a list is one such method. This video demonstrates a simple approach that can be applied to a variety of text … Continue reading →

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Texifter in 60 Seconds

 Posted on June 19, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

This 60-second video introduces our start-up. Click on the image below to see the Screencast and let us know what you think. Tweet This Post

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Using Twitter Bios & GNIP Rules to Find Domain Specific Twitter Users and Important Tweets

 Posted on May 18, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

Thanks Lee! Here is the video link: Tweet This Post

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Sina Weibo Working Group

 Posted on May 5, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

The Sina Weibo Working Group is off to a wonderful start. We invite other students of Chinese micro-blogging to join the group. All group members receive free, Enterprise individual DiscoverText licenses for active group participation. Contact josh@discovertext.com for more information. … Continue reading →

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What do people “Disqus” about Syria?

 Posted on May 4, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

I have a “Disqus” feed going on Syria. The “TopMeta” shows the distribution of online forum sources. Click on the image to see it full-size. Below is a visualization of the most frequently non-stop words based on an archive of … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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GNIP Twitter Firehose: beta v2

 Posted on January 19, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

We are very close to launching v2 of the GNIP-enabled Power Track for Twitter, aka the full fire hose. Sign up here! If you missed v1, or even if you were part of the first beta test, we need your … Continue reading →

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