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Category Archives: general
Bin Laden, Oil & Foreign Policy
Immediately following President Obama’s speech on the evening of May 1 confirming the execution of Osama bin Laden, the DiscoverText team began collecting all twitter posts which contained the key words “Osama,” and “Bin Laden.” The bin Laden project collected … Continue reading
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Tagged Bin Laden, Classifiers, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Foreign Policy, Machine Learning, Oil, Politics, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analysis, twitter
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FB Graph API Revisited
Following the blog post about oddities in the Facebook importing that Stu was experiencing while visiting the DMI summer school, I put on my detective hat and went looking for possible reasons why things that should be available from the … Continue reading
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Tagged API Graph, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook API, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics, twitter
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Capturing Social Media Dissent
Immediately after the judge read the not guilty verdict in the high profile Casey Anthony criminal case, total internet traffic to major news outlets doubled, and most importantly, outsiders took to social media outlets to display their emotions and opinions. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trial, Facebook, Public Dissent, Social Media, twitter
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Making Sense of ESPN Tweets
Should you ever want to visualize the definition of “unstructured data”, there is no need to look beyond the beautiful chaos that is 503,000 ESPN tweets all harvested using DiscoverText. It would be an understatement to call an archive of … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, ESPN, Machine Learning, Sports Classifier, Texifter, Text Analytics, Unstructured Data
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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
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Tagged Data Mining, DisocverText, Game of Thrones, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics, Top Meta, twitter
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Monitor Middle East Protests
Dear faithful users and intrigued future users of DiscoverText, My name’s Josh and I’m one of 3 user support specialists at Texifter LLC. For my first Texifter blog entry, I’m going to demonstrate how I’ve been using DiscoverText to capture … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Dissent, Facebook, Middle East, Protest, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics, twitter
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A Classifier for the Masses
DiscoverText took a leap forward a few weeks ago with the addition of a beta text classifier from the developers over at uClassify (www.uclassify.com). Integration of this tool into a one-of-a-kind active-learning system inside DiscoverText allows users to create and … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Texifter, Text Analytics, uClassify
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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
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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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CAT on the Brink of 1 Million Recorded Coding Choices
Texifter manages the Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT), which is a free, open source, Web-based and FISMA-compliant system launched in the fall of 2007 and hosted by the University of Pittsburgh. CAT is the precursor to PCAT and DiscoverText. This is … Continue reading
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Tagged Adjudication, analytics, CAT, Data Mining, DiscoverText, FISMA-Compliant, Social Media, Texifter
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