[Air-L] Tool to visualize boolean logic/ search queries

[Rakesh Biswas]

Thanks Stu,

This email was as much a potential influence akin to what Grimmer and
Stewart's article had on you.

Amazing presentation on humans and machines learning together spiced with
your own learning journey. 👏👏

best,

rb

On Mon, May 20, 2024, 4:56 PM Shulman, Stu via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Yes. DiscoverText is a web-based tool, free for academics who sign up with
> a valid academic email, with visual search results using highlights as one
> of five key pillars of text analytics. This is year 17 of my team
> engineering a system for conducting scientific, mixed-methods research
> using human annotators to crowdsource and measure human reliability and
> accuracy. Boolean search is a fundamental building block of what we do.
> Search, filtering, deduplication, clustering, human annotation, measuring
> inter-rater reliability, adjudication of disagreements, ranking of
> annotators over time, and machine-learning (ML) are integrated parts of a
> platform where the visualization of search is one of the greatest research
> accelerators I have ever used. I will often set the list view to 500 or
> 1,000 results per page and just scroll through the highlights for a deep
> immersion experience. We also enable labeling off the list view, so I
> combine Boolean search results with ML predictions to produce extremely
> clean lists where outliers are more easily identified. Finally, I use a
> browser add-on called "HighlightThis" to create another layer of highlights
> for particular subsets of discursive elements I am studying.
>
> Here are some simple Boolean queries visualized in a short slide deck:
> https://tinyurl.com/visualsearchresults
>
> The dataset in this case is an interesting one. Most of these examples in
> the slides are from November 6-7, 2020. The original Boolean collection
> query was "Dominion AND (voting OR systems OR system)". There is an as yet
> untold story about what happened in the first hours and days of the
> Dominion Voting Systems uproar that cost Fox News $750 million. I am
> currently looking for a collaborator or team to work with to write that up.
> It is probably the most interesting 400,000 Tweets I have ever encountered.
>
> For more information on our approach to "humans and machines learning
> together" there are a few short introduction videos.
> https://tinyurl.com/DTBasics
>
> If you would rather use built tools than spend your time building them,
> please book a meeting:
> https://calendly.com/discovertext
>
> ~Stu
>
>
>
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> On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 8:35 AM Hashem Elassad via Air-L <
> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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> > Hi there,
> > is there a tool to visualize search queries?
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