Text analytics for social research

This tutorial provides software training in "DiscoverText," which is text analytic software developed by Professor Shulman. His work advances text mining, social media, and natural language processing research. The software training links these worlds via easy to understand explanations of software features that can be tailored for all experience levels and industries. This tutorial introduces users to the powerful tools for archiving, searching and sorting web-based text from sources, including social media, email, open ended answers on surveys, and public comments from a wide range of sources. DiscoverText eases the collection, archiving and sorting of text collected via Twitter and the Facebook Graph APIs, or generic RSS feeds or uploaded in spreadsheets, .zip archives and XML format.