Stuart Shulman

Background

About Stuart Shulman

Dr. Stuart W. Shulman is the founder and CEO of Texifter. He is a retired US Soccer National C-licensed coach. Stu was formerly a University of Massachusetts Amherst political science professor and the founder and Director of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) at the University of Pittsburgh and at UMass Amherst. Dr. Shulman was the sole inventor of the Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT) in 2007, an open source.NET, Azure-based text analysis software project that recorded over 2.6 million human text classification observations (decommissioned in 2020). He is the inventor (with Mark J. Hoy) of the #1 ranked (http://bit.ly/2ClYjEQ) text analytics platform: DiscoverText (discovertext.com). His invention Sifter was a tool for primarily academic researchers who gained self-serve access to the complete undeleted history of Twitter (sifter.texifter.com) between 2014 and 2018 and then published studies across disciplines (discovertext.com/publications). Dr. Shulman was the Principal Investigator and Project Director on National Science Foundation-funded cross-disciplinary research studies focusing on electronic rulemaking (eRulemaking), human language technologies, manual annotation, digital citizenship, and service-learning in the United States. Stu is a former Oregon Tilth certified organic farmer and a more than 30-year garlic growing enthusiast who has taught courses on American national government, film & politics, environmental policy & justice, sprawl, information technology, qualitative research methods, digital citizenship, governance, and service-learning. Specialties: research methods, software development, text analytics, human coding, natural language processing, search, information retrieval, regulations, rulemaking, e-rulemaking, American politics, social media (especially Twitter), journalism history, information technology, entrepreneurship, democracy, capitalism & big data.