CRAWDAD TECHNOLOGIES LLC

Crawdad Technologies, LLC provides software and services to analysts and research professionals who need to transform unstructured text into insight. Crawdad operates from Chandler, Arizona.

In 2008, Crawdad operated Wonkosphere.com, a free web service that tracked over 1200 political blogs and web sites to provide timely and unbiased analysis of the 2008 U.S. Presidential race. Wonkosphere measured the buzz share and tone for each candidate every four hours, and highlights the most representative and influential posts. You can read our analysis at our Wonkoblog site…. KJZZ News Story about Wonkosphere… Wired.Com article

In 2004, Crawdad operated a US Presidential Dashboard based on text analysis of campaign communications from Bush and Kerry. They invented the Mud Meter™ that measured how much negative language one candidate used when talking about the other… New York Times article

Crawdad People 

Dr. Kevin Dooley is Chief Executive Officer of Crawdad. He is co-inventor of CRA, and he earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1987. Dooley is a Professor of Supply Chain Management at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Prof. Dooley's research interests lie in the areas of complex human systems. He has consulted with over 100 companies in the areas of quality, organizational change, and innovation, including Intel, Motorola, Raytheon, Honeywell, 3M, Citibank, and Ford.

Dr. Steven Corman is Chief Technology Officer of Crawdad. He is co-inventor of Centering Resonance Analysis (patent pending), a text analysis technology that underlies Crawdad’s product offerings. Dr. Corman earned his Ph.D. in Communication Theory from the University of Illinois in 1988, and is a Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. His research focuses on organizational networks, a perspective that figures prominently in the development of CRA. He is Vice-Chair of the Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association.

We wish to acknowledge the numerous people and partnerships that have provided Crawdad support over the years. Special thanks to… Dan O’Neill, Dan and Sharon Ballard, Ken Soucy, Bob Wallace, ASU Technopolis, Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE), Payam Refaeilzadeh, Steve Gordon and the ASU Software Factory, Sri Sridharan, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.