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Author Archives: Stuart Shulman
Power Track for Twitter
It works! In less than 48 hours, the GNIP-enabled Power track for Twitter has pulled in more than a quarter million Tweets for the rule “Google”: 257, 284 to be precise, but that number changes faster than I can keep … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, GNIP, Klout, Social Media, Texitfer, Text Analytics, twitter
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100 Million Documents
A few days ago, DiscoverText ingested document 100,000,000. It was probably a Tweet. Researchers woke up today to a newly optimized database of more than 300,000,000 meta data values. Over the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out … Continue reading
PowerTrack for Twitter
DiscoverText is preparing to launch a short and exclusive beta test period using “PowerTrack for Twitter Firehose Filtering” a service provided by GNIP. Compared to the “rate limited” service offered by DiscoverText through the public Twitter API, the “Full Firehose” … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged archiving, datamining, DiscoverText, Firehose, GNIP, PowerTrack, Research, Tweets, twitter
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DiscoverText Webinar
Learn to Use DiscoverText – Free Tutorial Webinar Tuesday August 16 at 1:00 PM EST Webinar Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/750225288 This free, live Webinar introduces DiscoverText and key features used to ingest, filter, search & code text. We take your questions and … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Learning, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, Machine Learning, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics, twitter, Webinar
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Facebook Graph Mysteries
During my recent visit to the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) summer school, hosted by my good friend Richard Rogers, I had the pleasure of spending two days teaching and working with 35 exceptionally bright students who were new to the … Continue reading
Posted in research
Tagged API Graph, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook API, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics
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Top #GameofThrones Tweeters
Below is another in our series of training videos. In this episode, we introduce you to a great new feature for peaking into the list of top values in a particular meta data field. In the example here, I show … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged Data Mining, DisocverText, Game of Thrones, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics, Top Meta, twitter
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Watch a DiscoverText Webinar
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
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Texifter, Text Analytics, Webinar
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70,000 Game of Thrones Tweets
I wanted to test the new Cloud Explorer developed by Texifter as part of the DiscoverText suite of text analysis tools. Since the revisions to the old tag cloud tool were inspired by comments from a Game of Thrones fan, … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged DiscoverText, Facebook, Game of Thrones, Social Media, Texifter, twitter
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Download the Recent DiscoverText Webinar
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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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Texifter, Text Analytics, Webinar
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Next Free DiscoverText Webinar Tuesday 12 PM EST
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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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Texifter, Text Analytics, Webinar
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Dwindling Osama bin Laden Tweets and the RT Champs
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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Tagged Bin Laden, Data Mining, DiscoverText, ReTweet, Texifter, Text Analytics, twitter
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Coding Text – Part Three
Researchers interested in large text collections and their itinerant coders tend to muddle through with limited collaborative, cross-disciplinary resources upon which to draw. The generic criteria for high-quality codebook construction and effective coding are underdeveloped, even as the tools and … Continue reading
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Tagged Code Text, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, Social Media, statistics, Texifter, Text Analysis
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Coding Text – Part Two
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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Tagged analytics, Coding Data, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics
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Coding Text Using the “QDAP Method” – Part One
We did it! The free, open source, Web-based, university-hosted, FISMA-compliant “Coding Analysis Toolkit” CAT recorded its one millionth coding choice. Pretty much all the credit goes to Texifter CTO and chief CAT architect Mark Hoy who has put in many … Continue reading
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Tagged Code Text, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, Social Media, statistics, Texifter, Text Analysis
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ACUS Calls for ‘Reliable Comment Analysis Software’
In a recent series of recommendations, the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), announced findings under the auspices of “Legal Considerations in e-Rulemaking,” from the Committee on Rulemaking. Having spent more than decade working on e-Rulemaking, I was curious … Continue reading →