Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the influence continuum.

And I have a very special guest this week, Dr. Stuart Shulman.

Dr. Shulman, you were introduced to me by one of my fielding professors while I was doing

my doctorate and I was asking, is there any way to do deep data analysis?

And my professor introduced me to you, which I am grateful to her for.

And I want to just share a little bit about your bio.

You are the founding editor of the Journal of Information, Technology, and Politics. You hold a Ph.D.

in American politics and is currently the founder and CEO of TechSifter, a software business serving academic, commercial, and government

clients. And Discover Text is a web-based text analytics platform for improving human and machine

learning. And you are a scholar, you've done extensive teaching, leadership roles with all

kinds of externally funded teams for collaborative interdisciplinary research. And your projects

include qualitative, quantitative, quantitative survey, social media data, as well as human annotation at scale, information retrieval,

and machine learning methods.

But today, and I should say that years ago when we first met, you, your company was analyzing data on what was Twitter, now X.

And you were following all kinds of interesting stories that helped us to try to unpack the machinery of radicalization.

And I'll just leave it at that.

I wanna thank you for being on the influence continuum

and your continued good work to try to illuminate

what the heck's going on on social media.

Thank you, Stephen, and thank you to our mutual friend who introduced us.

I think that was a great introduction.

And I also appreciate that you came to see my son play soccer.

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