Tag Archives: DiscoverText

Disqus API is Live!

 Posted on March 17, 2012 by Joseph Delfino

DiscoverText is pleased to announce it has added Disqus to its repertoire of APIs for harvesting content produced online. Disqus, the world’s largest comment platform operator, has over 70 million users who produce roughly 500,000 comments per day. There are … 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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Next DiscoverText Webinar

 Posted on December 22, 2011 by Joseph Delfino

On Friday, January 13th, 2012, at 2:00 PM EST, the 2011 DiscoverText Webinar Series will begin. Kicking off the series will be an in-depth discussion of how to use DiscoverText for HR Analytics. To sign-up for the webinar, click here. … 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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Free Text Analytics Workshop @UBC 1.19.12

 Posted on December 20, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

Unlock the Power of Text Open Lecture and Free Software Training on Text and Social Media Analysis Date: Thursday January 19, 2011 Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon Location: Irving K. Barber Centre, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, … Continue reading →

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Upload SurveyMonkey Output

 Posted on December 5, 2011 by Joseph Delfino

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 →

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Black Friday Divide

 Posted on November 28, 2011 by Joseph Delfino

Even as the crowds grew to record size, gunfire, and one epic fight over waffle irons, people still  ventured out to their local shopping malls and opened their wallets this Black Friday. With overall spending numbers up over 6%, Black … Continue reading →

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200 Million Document Milestone

 Posted on November 27, 2011 by Josh Sowalsky

Only a few months ago, DiscoverText’s data ingest counter was steadily moving toward 100 million documents. This week, the software’s document ingest counter will cross the 200 million document line. You can see this for yourself on our homepage. With … Continue reading →

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Visiting Google & Facebook

 Posted on November 17, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

Thanks to some excellent ground work by Joe Delfino and Sean Kelleher, Joe, Sean & I were able to make a pilgrimage to Google, Facebook & Reputation.com for a wildly exciting day of briefings with Q&A. While I’d love to … Continue reading →

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Holiday Shopping Update

 Posted on November 8, 2011 by Joseph Delfino

From now until the New Year signals the close of the holiday season, Texifter analysts will focus DiscoverText’s tools on holiday shoppers. We will take a close look at their behavior and sentiment as they hit the stores during the … Continue reading →

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