DiscoverText

A nifty method for coding large numbers of items off a list view.

Introduction to the interactive CloudExplorer tool, which lets you see frequently occurring non-stop words and drill in via search.

The core 21 features of DiscoverText are introduced. Archive, filter, search, human code, and machine classify text. Free text in surveys, social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube), emails, blogs (Disqus), and other electronic documents. This is a user-friendly, low barrier to access Web service. There is a 14-day free trial. The home page is http://DiscoverText.com.

The secret sauce for accurate and reliable text analytics.

A high-level, 1-minute summary of the text analytics start-up Texifter

How to upload a PST file to DiscoverText. The full export of an email account using Microsoft Outlook produces a .pst file with all the emails and attachments as single files. DiscoverText can ingest the single PST file and unpack all the data files and associated meta data for text analytics.

How to use the TopMeta discovery tool inside DiscoverText.

A classic from the PCAT era of building solutions for federal government agencies that need to de-duplicate and machine cluster massive public comment campaigns about proposed regulations.

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 is important to train and use custom machine classifiers to sort the millions of tweets they are collecting from the full Twitter fire hose. The UIC team strongly argues for the combination of good tools and highly reliable data.