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Tutorial Videos
Thanks to our friends at Screencast.com, we now have our entire tutorial video library indexed in a spiffy new media roll. Learn how to use DiscoverText to archive, filter, search, code, and machine...
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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...
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Win Historical Twitter Datasets
Just about six hours left to win valuable historical twitter datasets and powerful text analytics software. This is by far our best Facebook raffle yet. To enter: Login to Facebook Visit this URL:...
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Digital Methods Initiative Winter 2014 Slides
It was a great joy to return to the University of Amsterdam and give this talk to my old friend Richard Rogers and his 100+ attentive workshop attendees. Tweet This Post
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Collecting Facebook & Twitter Data
This is an updated 4-minute tutorial on how to collect public Facebook data via the Open Graph API using DiscoverText. This is an even shorter 75-second tutorial on how to collect Twitter data via the...
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Sifter – Search the Complete (Un-Deleted) History of Twitter
We could not be happier about the initial response to the beta test of “Sifter” (http://sifter.texifter.com), a self-serve tool to get free estimates of the cost to pull samples from the complete...
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Texifter News: Migration to Azure and the Big Boulder Initiative
A brief follow up on Texifter. We successfully migrated “DiscoverText” (http://discovertext.com) to Microsoft’s Azure. It was very smooth, though we are going through a period of diminished search and...
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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...
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Social Data & Tools: Prizes for Academics
Social Data & Tools: Prizes for Academics We felt inspired by the recent #DataGrants experiment sponsored by Twitter that generated more than 1,300 proposals from 60 countries and resulted in six...
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Update #1: Sorting the FCC’s Open Internet Public Comments
This is the first update on Texifter’s effort to support the crowd source review of the FCC’s Open Internet (a.k.a. “Net Neutrality”) public comments. Help review and report on what the public has said...
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Texifter Social Data and Tools: July 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 August drawing is submit a valid...
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Texifter Social Data and Tools: August 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. These prizes shave thousands of dollars of costs off of your research. The...
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Historical Twitter Prize Drawing
We need beta testers to close out our first year of new product development. Our tool Sifter is used for searching the complete “undeleted” history of Twitter. It allows the user to get a free estimate...
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Historical Twitter Prize Winners
Texifter’s most recent historical Twitter prize winners include three from the United States, one from Great Britain, and one from France. Winners receive Enterprise access to DiscoverText for six...
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Gnip Geo Enhancements for Twitter Data
In a continuing effort to create the best possible methods to sample Twitter data, we testing out a number of Gnip geographical enhancements. For a limited time, all of the...
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