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Tag Archives: DiscoverText
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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Connect Existing Facebook & DiscoverText Accounts
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
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged DiscoverText, Facebook, Import Data, Texifter, Text Analytics
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New DiscoverText Import Available: Congressional Bills Via GovTrack
Tonight we’ve added a new import ability to DiscoverText – for any user with a Professional or Enterprise license (as well as the 30-day free trial license), you can now directly import data on Federal Congressional bills. Thanks to the … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged Congressional Bills, DiscoverText, GovTrack API, Sunlight Labs API, Texifter
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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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The Return of Google Reader Feeds in DiscoverText
A number of months ago, Google Reader removed its direct ability to get an RSS feed of the feeds for your reader account. Due to this, we had to take the feed ingestion of Google Reader feeds offline inside of … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, product
Tagged analytics, API, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Google Reader, Social Media, Texifter
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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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Twitter and History March On
The Twistory saga continues. The tech news is full of stories these days about firms delivering social media brand management and public opinion results, all magically derived from massive tweet collections. Whether prudent or not, people want to know what … Continue reading
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Tagged API, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Social Media, Texifter, Twistory, twitter, Twitter API
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Throttled, or Not?
I was watching TweetDeck rattle off reactions to the end of “Twistory” and the “Dustin of Twistory” when my son came in an asked: Why is your tweet stream being throttled? I had missed the message in small print, but … Continue reading
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Tagged API, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Social Media, Texifter, Twistory, twitter, Twitter API
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Data We Can Share
Since we had to take down our 1.2 million “Osama bin Laden” tweets, we substituted data we can share gathered from Facebook to satisfy the curiosity of researchers who don’t normally handle big data but might want to dip their … Continue reading
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Tagged API, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Social Media, Texifter, Twistory, twitter, Twitter API
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The First Draft of ‘Twistory’ Revisited – An Update on (Not) Sharing Twitter Collections
Researchers like new datasets. Many of us build tools and techniques that work nicely with existing data, but may perform poorly with “out-of-sample” datasets. The ability to generate new and interesting big datasets, especially ones that draw a crowd of … Continue reading
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Tagged API, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Social Media, Texifter, Twistory, twitter, Twitter API
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1.2 Million “osama” & “bin laden” Tweets…and Counting
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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Tagged Bin Laden, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, R&D, Text Analytics, Twistory, Twitter API
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Harvesting Twitter Tweets
Using the Twitter API, we have made it easy to archive massive numbers of Twitter tweets. This short video demonstrates just how easy we have made it for you to do research on Twitter. Tweet This Post
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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Social Media, Text Analysis, twitter, Twitter API
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Scraping Facebook
Using a core element of the Facebook architecture (the “Graph API”), we have enabled DiscoverText users to “Connect with Facebook” to register their new accounts. You can learn about this option and how to collect data off Facebook by watching … Continue reading
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Tagged API, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Facebook, Facebook API, Machine Learning, R&D, Social Media
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