Category Archives: DiscoverText

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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DiscoverText Introduces Tools for Random Sampling

 Posted on November 1, 2011 by Josh Sowalsky

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 →

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Archiving Public Facebook Content: Technical & Legal Issues

 Posted on October 27, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

This is an updated version of a very popular early video. It describes some of the technical and legal issues when you “Connect” with Facebook credentials to DiscoverText. The video offers instructions about privacy and demonstrates how you can use … Continue reading →

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Why People Want GNIP’s Power Track Twitter Firehose

 Posted on October 25, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

We have been delighted with the response to our call for beta testers to try the GNIP-enabled PowerTrack for Twitter.  You can still sign up. Round 1 of the beta test concludes on October 31, 2011. Even just testing the … Continue reading →

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GNIP Power Track Tutorial: Getting Started via DiscoverText

 Posted on October 23, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

This is an 11-minute tutorial covering how you get started using the GNIP Power Track for Twitter (the “full firehose”) to capture large numbers of Tweets for analysis. Tweet This Post

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GNIP’s Power Track

 Posted on October 20, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

This short video talks about some of the advantages when using the GNIP-enabled Power Track for gathering Tweets via DiscoverText. Tweet This Post

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Crowdsourcing: the #OBL:-) Project

 Posted on October 10, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

Tomorrow morning I will present this 5-minute talk at #IR12. If you want the sneak peek, or if you cannot make it to Seattle for the talk, here is your chance to see the results and, more importantly, be a … Continue reading →

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22,348 bin Laden Tweets: Coded!

 Posted on September 29, 2011 by Josh Sowalsky

It took all of three days for 27 individuals from around the country (and maybe the world) to collectively code 22,348 Tweets that mentioned Osama bin Laden, following his assassination. This crowdsourcing feat, sponsored by the Qualitative Data Analysis Program … Continue reading →

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Shaky News Coverage of Libya

 Posted on August 23, 2011 by Joseph Delfino

This weekend, opposition forces in Libya fought a ground war to oust long-standing dictator Col. Gaddafi. Simultaneously, a global news war also waged, as news sources sought to be the shining star in broadcasting the latest from Tripoli. Some of … Continue reading →

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Watch a DiscoverText Webinar

 Posted on July 2, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

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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Peer Network Privacy Controls

 Posted on June 25, 2011 by Mark J. Hoy

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 →

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Search All Public Facebook Posts

 Posted on June 16, 2011 by Mark J. Hoy

All this week, we’ve been highlighting some of the new features and functionality recently added to DiscoverText. Tonight, Texifter staff is excited to present the ability to search across all available public Facebook posts and pull those comments into a … Continue reading →

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“Cloud Explorer” – More Than Just a Tag Cloud

 Posted on June 14, 2011 by Mark J. Hoy

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 →

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DiscoverText Gets a Major Usability Upgrade and New Functionality

 Posted on June 13, 2011 by Mark J. Hoy

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 →

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