Category Archives: general

Texifter, JetBlue & Google @SIOP

 Posted on March 21, 2012 by Joseph Delfino

Prior to heading to IHRIM in Chicago at the beginning of May, Texifter will be making an appearance in San Diego at the 2012 Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Conference. SIOP is a division of the American Psychological … Continue reading →

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Weibo Arrives @DiscoverText

 Posted on March 20, 2012 by Josh Sowalsky

After months of user anticipation, the Weibo API is now integrated into DiscoverText, our “do-it-yourself” text analytic solution for deriving insight from unstructured text. With over 300 million users, Weibo is the largest micro-blogging website in China. Its integration into … Continue reading →

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Texifter at IHRIM 2012

 Posted on March 18, 2012 by Joseph Delfino

On May 1st and 2nd, Texifter personnel will be bringing DiscoverText to IHRIM in Chicago, Illinois. The event is the largest gathering of Human Resource (HR) professionals in the country. The meeting facilitates the exchange of new ideas and technologies for use in … Continue reading →

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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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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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Archiving Google+

 Posted on January 15, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

As part of developing our suite of live feed options, we are currently beta testing a new Google+ API. If you would like to join the beta group, let us know. This video outlines the way we have set it … Continue reading →

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DiscoverText Tutorial Videos

 Posted on January 8, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

Screencast.com, a web-service that has been very reliable and affordable for years delivering tutorial videos, has a nice “Playlist” feature for sharing a set of related videos. An updated collection of updated DiscoverText tutorials is now posted with an RSS feed … Continue reading →

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Stanford Lecture and Demo

 Posted on January 7, 2012 by Stuart Shulman

The Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (iriss.stanford.edu) will be hosting a talk and software demo by Dr. Stuart Shulman, Founding Director of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program at UMass Amherst. The talk abstract is copied below.  We invite … Continue reading →

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TopMeta as Filter

 Posted on December 22, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

Click on the First Frame below to view the video via Screencast. Tweet This Post

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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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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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