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Category Archives: general
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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Text Analysis during the 2011 State of the Union Address
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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Tagged API, Congressional Bills, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Obama, R&D, Social Media, State of the Union, Texifter, Text Analytics
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