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Tag Archives: crowdsourcing
Update #1: Sorting the FCC’s Open Internet Public Comments
This is the first update on Texifter’s effort to support the crowd source review of the FCC’s Open Internet (a.k.a. “Net Neutrality”) public comments. Help review and report on what the public has said about the future of the Internet. … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Code Text, coding, Crowd Source, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, FCC, Net Neutrality, Open Internet, Texifter, Text Analytics
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Digital Methods Initiative Winter 2014 Slides
It was a great joy to return to the University of Amsterdam and give this talk to my old friend Richard Rogers and his 100+ attentive workshop attendees. Tweet This Post
Tutorial Videos
Thanks to our friends at Screencast.com, we now have our entire tutorial video library indexed in a spiffy new media roll. Learn how to use DiscoverText to archive, filter, search, code, and machine classify text from social media, surveys, emails … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, product
Tagged Active Learning, analytics, Code Text, coding, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Disqus, Facebook, Facebook API, GNIP, Google, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, Social Media, social media monitoring, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter Mining
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Fear and Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail
Hurricane Sandy kept me from giving this talk titled “Fear & Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail” in San Francisco, so here is it via a Screencast. Tweet This Post
Posted in DiscoverText, research, Social Media
Tagged Active Learning, Code Text, coding, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, election, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, software, Text Analytics
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Coders Needed!
We are building up a pool of coders for some new projects. If you are good at labeling text this may be an excellent opportunity for you. Graduate students are particularly welcome to join the pool. Coders accepted into the … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, research
Tagged coding, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, Machine Learning, social media monitoring, statistics, Texifter, twitter, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API
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Building a Social Sifter
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
Posted in DiscoverText, research
Tagged analytics, crowdsourcing, DiscoverText, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, SIFTER, Social Media, social sifter
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What is DiscoverText?
A 9-minute high-level overview of DiscoverText. Tweet This Post
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged analytics, API, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, GNIP, Machine Learning, Social Media, social media monitoring, twitter, Twitter API, Twitter Mining, Video
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The Crazy Life of a Tweet
On the evening of May 1st, Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. Over the following hours (and days), bin Laden was mentioned by millions across the twitterverse. Among the first of those tweets came from a young, gay, homeschooled … Continue reading
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Tagged #OBL, analytics, API, Bin Laden, Code Text, coding, Crowdsource, crowdsourcing, DiscoverText, Research, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tweets, twitter, Twitter API
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The OBL Script
#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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Tagged #ir12, #OBL, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Texifter
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Crowdsourcing: the #OBL:-) Project
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
Posted in DiscoverText, research
Tagged #OBL, Crowdsource, crowdsourcing, humor, methods, Research, tools
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Bin Laden Tweets Take Center Stage at AoIR
On Tuesday, October 11th, Texifter Founder and CEO, Stu Shulman, will be attending the annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Seattle, Washington. The Twelfth Annual AoIR Conference (you can follow it on Twitter @ #IR12) brings together … Continue reading
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Tagged AoIR, Bin Laden, crowdsourcing, data ming, DiscoverText, ignite talks, QDAP, Social Media, Texifter, twitter
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Crowdsourcing bin Laden Humor
This Saturday, Texifter will begin its first foray into crowdsourcing, the relatively new phenomenon made possible by complex and fast information networks. Crowdsourcing seeks to tap the collective intellect of a large group to find a result instead of relying … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, Bin Laden, coding, collaboration, crowdsourcing, Data Mining, Text Analytics
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