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Tag Archives: Data Mining
FB Graph API Revisited
Following the blog post about oddities in the Facebook importing that Stu was experiencing while visiting the DMI summer school, I put on my detective hat and went looking for possible reasons why things that should be available from the … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged API Graph, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook API, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics, twitter
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Facebook Graph Mysteries
During my recent visit to the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) summer school, hosted by my good friend Richard Rogers, I had the pleasure of spending two days teaching and working with 35 exceptionally bright students who were new to the … Continue reading
Posted in research
Tagged API Graph, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook API, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics
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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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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, ESPN, Machine Learning, Sports Classifier, Texifter, Text Analytics, Unstructured Data
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Top #GameofThrones Tweeters
Below is another in our series of training videos. In this episode, we introduce you to a great new feature for peaking into the list of top values in a particular meta data field. In the example here, I show … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Mining, DisocverText, Game of Thrones, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics, Top Meta, twitter
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Monitor Middle East Protests
Dear faithful users and intrigued future users of DiscoverText, My name’s Josh and I’m one of 3 user support specialists at Texifter LLC. For my first Texifter blog entry, I’m going to demonstrate how I’ve been using DiscoverText to capture … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Dissent, Facebook, Middle East, Protest, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics, twitter
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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
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Texifter, Text Analytics, Webinar
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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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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Texifter, Text Analytics, uClassify
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Peer Network Privacy Controls
Tonight, we introduce two slightly overlooked but very powerful features of DiscoverText – building peer networks within the system and privacy controls. The peer functions and privacy controls within DiscoverText have been around since the inception of the system, so … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Peer Functions, Peer Network, Privacy, Texifter, Text Analytics
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“Cloud Explorer” – More Than Just a Tag Cloud
Continuing from last night’s blog post regarding Texifter’s latest work regarding the new navigation design and functionality in DiscoverText, tonight I’d like to introduce you to DiscoverText’s Cloud Explorer. Most traditional tag clouds such as Wordle and TagCrowd only give … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged Cloud Explorer, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Social Media, Tag Cloud, Texifter
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DiscoverText Gets a Major Usability Upgrade and New Functionality
Over the past couple of months, we here at Texifter have been working hard on improvements and new functionality for DiscoverText. Over the course of this week, we’ll be releasing these new improvements and I’ll be writing up a blog … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Functionality, Import Documents, Meta Data, Texifter, Text Analytics
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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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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Texifter, Text Analytics, Webinar
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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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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Texifter, Text Analytics, Webinar
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Dwindling Osama bin Laden Tweets and the RT Champs
The running count in my DiscoverText “bin Laden” project is ~4.5 million unsharable Tweets. Though we can’t share them, we can describe them. One of the interesting features of this dataset is the rapidly dwindling Tweet rate over the month … Continue reading
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Tagged Bin Laden, Data Mining, DiscoverText, ReTweet, Texifter, Text Analytics, twitter
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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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The Return of Google Reader Feeds in DiscoverText
A number of months ago, Google Reader removed its direct ability to get an RSS feed of the feeds for your reader account. Due to this, we had to take the feed ingestion of Google Reader feeds offline inside of … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged analytics, API, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Google Reader, Social Media, Texifter
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