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SUMMARY: Analyzing Text Data with DiscoverText
DESCRIPTION: Join us on March 7 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM for a hands-on Text Dat
 a Analysis Workshop using DiscoverText\, a web-based platform for categoriz
 ing text data. Learn to label and classify data from large-scale survey res
 ponses\, RSS feeds\, Twitter/X\, and more.
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 -Data-with-DiscoverText.png" caption="" width="website"]</p><h3>Join us for
  a Text Data Analysis workshop on Friday\, March 7\, from 1:00 - 3:00 PM.</
 h3><p style="font-weight: 400\;"><em>Participants should bring a laptop. No
  prior programming or statistical experience is necessary.</em></p><hr /><p
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 ands-on workshop led by founder Stuart Shulman\, participants will learn to
  use <a href="https://discovertext.com/">DiscoverText</a>\, a multilingual-
 capable web-based platform for categorizing text data. DiscoverText runs th
 rough a graphical user interface\, so no statistical or software programmin
 g (e.g.\, R\, Python) is required. The workshop will teach participants how
  to use DiscoverText to label data to build custom machine classifiers from
  large scale survey responses\, RSS feeds\, Twitter/X\, or any other digiti
 zed text and metadata. We will draw examples of Twitter/X datasets from twe
 ets relevant to Canada on immigration\, MCGA (Make Canada Great Again)\, an
 d other timely topics.</p><p data-start="793" data-end="876">DiscoverText i
 s free for academics—come see how it can support your research!</p><p style
 ="font-weight: 400\;"><strong>Schedule</strong></p><p>1:00 – 2:30 PM | Work
 shop<br />2:30 – 3:00 PM | Individual consultations possible</p><hr /><p st
 yle="font-weight: 400\;"><a href="https://www.torontomu.ca/bridging-divides
 /people/advisors/international-advisory-board/stuart-shulman/">Dr. Stuart S
 hulman</a><a href="https://www.torontomu.ca/bridging-divides/people/advisor
 s/international-advisory-board/stuart-shulman/"><img class="alignleft wp-im
 age-24627" src="https://migr.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/20
 25/02/IMG_8507-187x300.jpeg" alt="" width="187" height="300" /></a> holds a
  PhD in American politics and is a methodologist with more than 30 years of
  experience sorting words in categories. He has worked as a political scien
 ce professor\, entrepreneur\, CEO of Texifter\, inventor of DiscoverText\, 
 retired U.S. Soccer National C licensed coach\, and a Taoist garlic grower.
  He serves on the International Advisory Board of the Migrant Integration i
 n the Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides research initiative\, of which CMS
  is a member.</p><p>[gravityform id="173" title="true" description="false"]
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