Tag Archives: Text Analytics

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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Download the Recent DiscoverText Webinar

 Posted on June 8, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

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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Next Free DiscoverText Webinar Tuesday 12 PM EST

 Posted on June 6, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

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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Dwindling Osama bin Laden Tweets and the RT Champs

 Posted on June 1, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

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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Connect Existing Facebook & DiscoverText Accounts

 Posted on May 24, 2011 by Mark J. Hoy

Many people have asked us “How to I import Facebook data if I have a regular DiscoverText Account?” – The short answer is that there is no way to pull in Facebook feeds within DiscoverText unless you register and login … Continue reading →

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Coding Text – Part Two

 Posted on May 14, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

In Part One of the Series “Coding Text the QDAP Way,” I wrote about the problem of idiosyncratic annotation and the lack of diverse, interesting and re-usable annotated data sets. Providing data for replication (when possible) is a requisite for … Continue reading →

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1.2 Million “osama” & “bin laden” Tweets…and Counting

 Posted on May 4, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

On the May 1, 2011 evening it was announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed, we started running repeated fetches against the Twitter API for the terms “osama” and “bin laden”. On May 3, we posted more than 1.2 … Continue reading →

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Text Analysis during the 2011 State of the Union Address

 Posted on February 3, 2011 by Mark J. Hoy

As part of the underlying research Texifter is doing on sentiment and topic analysis, we collected data from various Twitter and Facebook feeds +/- 48 hours during the 2011 State of the Union address on Tuesday, January 25th, 2011. Texifter … Continue reading →

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