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Category Archives: research
Texifter Social Data & Tools June Prize Winners
As a part of getting new users to test our sifter beta, every month this summer we are awarding 12 #datagrants to academics. All you need to do to be included in the July drawing is submit a valid historical … Continue reading
Posted in Disqus, research, Social Media, Texifter, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress
Tagged #bigdata, Active Learning, analytics, API, coding, DiscoverText, Disqus, R&D, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, software, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tumblr, Twitter Analysis, Twitter Mining, WordPress
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School Bullying Research Using DiscoverText
Our Vanderbilt University team uses DiscoverText (DT) to support qualitative text analysis of 8,531 high school students’ responses about their in-school experiences of bullying. DiscoverText has offered us powerful ways to perform key steps throughout our coding process. Fundamentally, DT … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, research
Tagged bullying, coding, data, inter-rater reliability, kappa, measurement, methods, Qualitative, Research, research methodology
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Five Pillars of Text Analytics
Document relevance is a key challenge for social media research. The specific problem of “word sense disambiguation” is widespread. If I am interested in “banks” where money is stored, I want to exclude mentions of river banks. If I am … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, product, research, Social Media
Tagged Active Learning, Code Text, Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analytics
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DiscoverText: A Vital Research Tool for Social Media
I’ve been using DiscoverText for several years, primarily in an academic research capacity but also working with journalists to help them reach broader audiences through social media. From an academic standpoint, DiscoverText was the backbone of collecting Facebook and Twitter … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, product, research, Social Media, Twitter
Tagged DiscoverText, Facebook, Research, Social Media Analytics, software, twitter, Twitter Mining
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DiscoverText as a Teaching and Research Tool
Conducting research on the impact of large projects and events is difficult as each undertaking is unique. Traditional quantitative techniques face limitations of internal validity while qualitative research faces challenges of external validity. However, projects and events generate a massive … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, general, research, Twitter
Tagged DiscoverText, Facebook, Research, Social Media, Teaching, twitter
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Smoking Hot Data
We interviewed researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago in the Health Media Collaboratory about their use of DiscoverText and the Gnip-enabled Power Track for Twitter to study smoking behavior. The team, led by Dr. Sherry Emery, explains why it … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, GNIP, research, Social Media, Twitter
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, GNIP, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, PowerTrack, R&D, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analysis, Text Analytics, Tweets, 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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Hunting Political Fear
The R&D team has been preparing an academic basic research talk I will make at the October 30, 2012 Sentiment Analysis Symposium. The title is “Fear and Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail” and we have been working with a … Continue reading
Posted in research, Social Media
Tagged Active Learning, coding, Data Mining, fear, Politics, Social Media, software, statistics, Text Analytics
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Heat Maps Arrive
We are thrilled with the response to v1 of our heat map tools, which provide a unique glimpse into the nature and scope of inter-coder agreement in DiscoverText. This video introduces the beta version of the tool. Overtime, the tool … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, product, research
Tagged coding, DiscoverText, Heatmaps, inter-rater reliability, Research, statistics
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Chasing the Social Media Data Trail – Jeremy Harris Lipschultz
I really like the effort Jeremy Harris Lipschultz put into preparing this panel, recording it with a small hand held device, making edits, and producing a polished video and blog post. Early attempts to list useful social media metrics quit … Continue reading
Posted in general, research, Social Media, Twitter
Tagged AEJMC, analytics, Data Mining, Google, Machine Learning, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, social media monitoring, software, Text Analysis, Twitter Mining
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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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Twitter Fire Hose Access: Never Miss a Tweet
Just in time for the 2012 GOP convention, we are running a special offer to provide full Twitter fire hose access via the Gnip-enabled Power Track for Twitter: Never miss a tweet. Full coverage with no rate limits. Powerful search … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, GNIP, product, research
Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, GNIP, Machine Classifiers, Machine Learning, PowerTrack, Social Media, social media monitoring, software, Text Analytics, Tweets, Twitter Analysis, Twitter API, Twitter Mining
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Fear & Loathing on the Social Campaign Trail
I am very excited to be undertaking a whole new line of research into political fear. Inspired by my work with Glen Szczypka and the Health Media Collaboratory, I had this proposal accepted for the October 30, 2012 Sentiment Analysis … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, Facebook, general, research, Twitter
Tagged analysis, election, fear, political twitter, Research, sentiment, topic models
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Analyzing Co-Occurrences
A common question we hear at Texifter is, “How can one derive co-occurrences in a slice of data?” DiscoverText makes this process relatively easy – when starting with one known variable. For instance, one might like to see which hashtags … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, general, research
Tagged analysis, analytics, co-occurrences, DiscoverText, hashtags, insight, links, Media, romney, SMA, social, Social Media, Social Media Analytics, statistics, stats, Texifter, tweet, Tweets, twitter, Twitter Analysis, twitter stats, urls
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Sina Weibo Working Group
The Sina Weibo Working Group is off to a wonderful start. We invite other students of Chinese micro-blogging to join the group. All group members receive free, Enterprise individual DiscoverText licenses for active group participation. Contact josh@discovertext.com for more information. … Continue reading
Posted in DiscoverText, research
Tagged Chinese Social Media, methods, micro-blog, Research, Sina Weibo
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