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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Hurtigruten: A Norwegian Social Media Phenomenon
Here at Texifter, we are regularly impressed by the many ways in which our increasing number of end-users discover new ways to apply DiscoverText’s capabilities to their own research. With each new success story, we are – once again – … Continue reading
Posted in general
Tagged DiscoverText, Facebook, Hurtigruten, Social Media, Texifter, Text Analysis, twitter, Twitter Analysis
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Updates to the DiscoverText Terms of Service
Effective July 25th, 2011, Texifter has modified the Terms of Service governing its DiscoverText product and the use of Texifter’s services and sites in general. The primary changes of importance include: Paragraph 1.1: we’ve removed the phrase “and excluding any … Continue reading
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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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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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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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
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Tagged Data Mining, DiscoverText, Machine Learning, Texifter, Text Analytics, Webinar
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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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