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CAQDAS Networking Project, University of Surrey

CAQDAS Methodological Webinar : Stu Shulman on need for tools for rapid, at-scale and accurate analysis of text  and social media content

Humans and machines learning togetherRecent events and emerging trends highlight the need for software that supports rapid and accurate text and social data analytics at scale. One example is the emergence of COVID-19 and related misinformation. Another is the need to identify foreign and domestic efforts to manipulate elections using bots and trolls to amplify propaganda and disinformation. We also see new challenges to academic research using social media data, a rise in suicides and suicidal attempts by military veterans, and an increase in violent attacks on schools and communities that might be preventable through analysis of social media posts. DiscoverText is a decade-old cloud software application that supports teams working to meet these needs by collecting, cleaning and analyzing text and Twitter data. It offers a point-and-click interface to crowdsource the labeling of large data sets. Developed through a decade of U.S. federal funding for basic and applied research, it supports the work of academic research groups, regulatory agencies, non-profit legal teams, and private companies. It is robust in more than 30 languages including the 10 most spoken on earth. 
In this webinar, the developer of DiscoverText, Dr Stu Shulman, will discuss the methodological underpinnings of the application, illustrate how build custom machine classifiers for sifting free text, emails, survey responses, Twitter data, RSS feeds, etc., and describe how to reach and substantiate inferences using a theoretical and applied model informed by a decade of interdisciplinary research into the text classification problem.
SpeakerDr. Stuart W. Shulman is the founder and CEO of Texifter, inventor of the <a href="https://cat.texifter.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Coding Analysis Toolkit</a> (open source text analysis software) and <a href="https://discovertext.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DiscoverText</a> (collaborative text analytics for human and machine-learning). His invention Sifter was a tool for primarily academic researchers who gained self-serve access to the complete undeleted history of Twitter and published studies across disciplines . Stu was formerly a University of Massachusetts Amherst political science professor and the Vice President for Text Analytics at VisionCritical. He was also the founder and Director of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) at the University of Pittsburgh and at UMass Amherst.

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