Learn to Use DiscoverText to Gather and Classify Electronic Text Free Webinar Tuesday at 12:00 PM EST To register: [1]https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/137847889 This Webinar introduces new and existing DiscoverText users to the basic document ingest, search & code features, takes your questions, and demonstrates our newest tool, a machine-learning classifier that is currently in beta testing. This is also a chance to preview our "New Navigation" and advanced filters. DiscoverText's latest additions to our "Do it Yourself" platform can be easily trained to perform customized mood, sentiment and topic classification. Any custom classification scheme or topic model can be created and implemented by the user. Automatic classifications can then be set as document filters with adjustable thresholds. For those following the trajectory of this software, this new set of functionalities represents a leap forward. You can also generate tag clouds and drill into the most frequently occurring terms or use advanced search and use combinations of text and metadata filters to create "buckets" of text. Next week we are launching v2 of our tag cloud tool which will give users considerable flexibility to build the visualization that best represent their discoveries and inferences. The system makes it possible to capture, share and crowd source text data analysis in novel ways. For example, you can collect text content off Facebook, Twitter & YouTube, as well as other social media or RSS feeds. Dataset owners can assign their "peers" to coding tasks. It is simple to measure the reliability of two or more coder's choices. Crowd sourcing with 50 coders is no problem. A distinctive feature of DiscoverText and its free, open source pre-cursor CAT, is the ability to adjudicate coder choices for training purposes or to report validity by code, coder or project. This technique allows researchers to report validity scores (% valid) alongside reliability measures (Fleiss' Kappa). So, please join us Tuesday June 7 at 12:00 PM EST (Noon) for an interactive Webinar. Find out why sorting thousands of items from social media, email and electronic document repositories is easier than ever. Participants in the Webinar will be invited to become beta testers of the new classification application. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman [2]http://people.umass.edu/stu Editor, JITP [3]www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass [4]http://www.umass.edu/qdap Founder and CEO, Texifter [5]http://www.texifter.com References 1. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/137847889 2. http://people.umass.edu/stu 3. http://www.jitp.net/ 4. http://www.umass.edu/qdap 5. http://www.texifter.com/