Deanya Lattimore's List: TechAnalysisTools

 DiscoverText's latest feature additions 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. Once a classification scheme is created, you can then use  advanced, threshold-sensitive filters to look at just the documents you  want.  You can also generate interactive, custom, salient word clouds using  the "Cloud Explorer" and drill into the most frequently occurring terms  or use advanced search and filters to create "buckets" of text.  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. A  distinctive feature is the ability to adjudicate coder choices for  training purposes or to report validity by code, coder or project.

Including help for completing the diss.  Lots of good tips.

ICTA is a (currently free) web-based system for automated text analysis and discovery of social networks from electronic communication such as emails, forums, blogs and chats.

Gruzd, Anatoliy A. (2009). ICTA - Internet Community Text Analyzer: Software for Automated Text and Social Network Analysis. Available at http://TextAnalytics.net

Carolyn Haythornthwaite posted this link to the AIR-L today.

WorldCat.org has a new feature: search for an author, go to a detailed record of a book by that author, go down to the "Details" part of the record, and click the "Go" button beside "Find More information about..." the author's name. The resulting "Identities" record is a cool social network representation of the author. I've linked Erving Goffman's as an example.