Author Archives: Stuart Shulman

About Stuart Shulman

Stuart Shulman is a political science professor, software inventor, entrepreneur, and garlic growing enthusiast who coaches U13 boys club soccer and in the Olympic Development Program with a national D-license. He is Founder & CEO of Texifter, LLC, Director of QDAP-UMass, and Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Stu is the proud owner of a Bernese/Shepherd named "Colbert" who is much better known as 'Bert. You can follow his exploits @stuartwshulman.

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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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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Predictive Analytics, Amsterdam

 Posted on November 18, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

Texifter personnel travel next to Amsterdam to present and exhibit at the “Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit” on November 22 & 23. On Day 1, I will give a talk titled “Humans and Machines Working Together,” that details our work on … 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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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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The OBL Script

 Posted on October 13, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

  #ir12 – IGNITE TALK SCRIPT Slide #1 – Hi I’m Stu and I’m going to talk today about the power of crowds for performing certain tasks. I want to thank Josh Sowalsky for managing this project and drafting the … Continue reading →

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The OBL:-) Voting Options

 Posted on October 11, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

Note: Voting will remain open until the end of #IR12. Thanks for the idea of posting the ballot Sarah! Tweet #OBL:-) plus the number of the Tweet you think is funniest.                   … Continue reading →

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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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