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Tag Archives: Code Text
Update #1: Sorting the FCC’s Open Internet Public Comments
This is the first update on Texifter’s effort to support the crowd source review of the FCC’s Open Internet (a.k.a. “Net Neutrality”) public comments. Help review and report on what the public has said about the future of the Internet. … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Code Text, coding, Crowd Source, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, FCC, Net Neutrality, Open Internet, Texifter, Text Analytics
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Social Data & Tools: Prizes for Academics
Social Data & Tools: Prizes for Academics We felt inspired by the recent #DataGrants experiment sponsored by Twitter that generated more than 1,300 proposals from 60 countries and resulted in six extremely interesting awards. One thing is clear: many more grants … Continue reading
Posted in Disqus, Disqus, Social Media, Texifter, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress
Tagged Code Text, Context, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Disqus, Free, historical Twitter, Prizes, SIFTER, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tumblr, twitter
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Five Pillars of Text Analytics
Document relevance is a key challenge for social media research. The specific problem of “word sense disambiguation” is widespread. If I am interested in “banks” where money is stored, I want to exclude mentions of river banks. If I am … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, product, research, Social Media
Tagged Active Learning, Code Text, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics
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Digital Methods Initiative Winter 2014 Slides
It was a great joy to return to the University of Amsterdam and give this talk to my old friend Richard Rogers and his 100+ attentive workshop attendees. Tweet This Post
Tutorial Videos
Thanks to our friends at Screencast.com, we now have our entire tutorial video library indexed in a spiffy new media roll. Learn how to use DiscoverText to archive, filter, search, code, and machine classify text from social media, surveys, emails … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, product
Tagged Active Learning, analytics, Code Text, coding, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Disqus, Facebook, Facebook API, GNIP, Google, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, Social Media, social media monitoring, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter Mining
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Fear and Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail
Hurricane Sandy kept me from giving this talk titled “Fear & Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail” in San Francisco, so here is it via a Screencast. Tweet This Post
Posted in DiscoverText, research, Social Media
Tagged Active Learning, Code Text, coding, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, election, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, software, Text Analytics
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Coding Off a List
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
Posted in DiscoverText, general
Tagged Code Text, coding, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, R&D, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics
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Get the Twitter Fat Pipe
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
Posted in DiscoverText, GNIP, Twitter
Tagged #bigdata, beta test, Code Text, Data Mining, DiscoverText, GNIP, Twitter API
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Upload SurveyMonkey Output
For the past couple of months the Texifter blog has featured many posts about the power of DiscoverText to harvest Twitter data and make sense of the noisy and often confusing data. This process has been amplified by our recent … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Code Text, CSV Files, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Survey, SurveyMonkey, Texifter, Text Mining, Text Toolkit, Twitter Mining, Upload
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DiscoverText Introduces Tools for Random Sampling
DiscoverText is rolling-out an addition to its analytical toolkit: random sampling. The Web-service already offers an array of tools for text analytics and rigorous, team-based qualitative data analysis. These functions include the ability to code and annotate text, measure inter-rater … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, general, GNIP, product, research, Twitter
Tagged analytics, API Graph, Bayesian, Bayesian classification, classification, Code Text, coding, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Firehose, Gary King, GNIP, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, methodology, Natural Language Processing, NLP, PowerTrack, Qualitative Data Analysis, random, Random Sample, Random Sampling, Research, research methodology, sample, Sampling, Social Graph, Social Media, social media monitoring, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, twitter, Twitter API
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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
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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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The Crazy Life of a Tweet
On the evening of May 1st, Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. Over the following hours (and days), bin Laden was mentioned by millions across the twitterverse. Among the first of those tweets came from a young, gay, homeschooled … Continue reading
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Tagged #OBL, analytics, API, Bin Laden, Code Text, coding, Crowdsource, crowdsourcing, DiscoverText, Research, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tweets, twitter, Twitter API
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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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Tagged Code Text, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, Social Media, statistics, Texifter, Text Analysis
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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
Posted in general
Tagged Code Text, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, Social Media, statistics, Texifter, Text Analysis
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