ABOUT US

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.

Crawdad News

5/20/2007... Our friends at Grid7 have done a story on Crawdad. Check out the podcast.

4/15/2007... Our friends at Wallstrip.com have been purchased by CBS. Here are some guest comments we made on Howard Lindzon's blog, concerning Marvel Comics, Jones Soda, and Kelloggs.

4/2/2007... Cold Stone Creamery is using Crawdad's Listening Post to monitor blogs and myspace for buzz about their product.

1/31/2007 ... Crawdad announced the beta-release of Crawdad Listening Post™ 1.0.  Crawdad Listening Post™ listens to blogs, social networking sites, web sites, and media in order to help you monitor what is being said about your brand, product, celebrity, politician, or issue.  Go here for more information.

 

4/1/2006 ... Crawdad announced the release of Crawdad Desktop 2.0, its powerful and easy-to-use text analysis software.  Crawdad is becoming the leading choice for researchers and analysts who need a state-of-the-art text analysis system on their desktop.  Improvements include new interactive tools to facilitate clustering analysis, faster computation, and capability to analyze very large texts.  Go here for more information.

9/21/2005... Crawdad Helping Firms Improve Customer Service
Do you have Voice of Customer data that is sitting in a file folder because it is too expensive or complex to analyze. Crawdad now offers turn-key analytical services that help managers improve their customer service by telling you what your customers said and didn't say, and why they said it. Crawdad specializes in analyzing customer survey comments, interview and focus group transcripts, emails, and problem reports. Go here for more information.

9/20/2005... Crawdad Software to Help Qualitative Researchers Improve Their Quality and Productivity
Version 1.2 of the Crawdad Text Analysis System was released Sept. 20, 2005. Crawdad software features concept mapping, full-text search, auto-clustering, and data export. New features include the ability to examine extremely large text collections, a fully-interactive GUI for hierarchical clustering of texts, correlation and factor analysis of keyword metrics, and a streamlined installation process. Go here for more information about the software.

3/1/2005... Crawdad Technologies, LLC won a Phase II STTR from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, in collaboration with Arizona State University. The proposal “Centering Resonance Analysis: A superior data approach for mining textual data streams” involves development of a Terrorism Dashboard, which tracks and analyzes terrorism-related news from numerous national and international media streams, including Al-Jazeera, BBC, and Reuters. The Dashboard features the U.S. Mud Meter (tm), which measures the tone in which the media source frames the U.S., and the Mayhem Meter (tm), which measures the amount of violence and destruction in news articles concerning different parts of the globe.

12/10/2004... The Crawdad 2004 Campaign Dashboard provided an unbiased and comprehensive analysis of presidential campaign communications from the Bush and Kerry official web sites and blogs, updated daily. The Dashboard used identical technology to analyze both message streams, and provided estimates of the tone, intensity, and focus of campaign communications, key words from each campaign, and image nets that showed how the candidates were semantically framing themselves and the other. Additionally, the Crawdad Mud Meter™ provided an objective measure of political mud-slinging never available before. The Campaign Dashboard was covered by ABC-TV, NBC-TV, PBS-TV, the New York Times, and WBUR-Radio.

8/10/2004... Crawdad Technologies, LLC announces the release of its desktop text analysis software, Crawdad 1.1. Crawdad 1.2 embeds their patent-pending technology, Centering Resonance Analysis, a form of network text analysis. Crawdad 1.1 targets analysts and research professionals who need to analyze large amounts of unstructured data in sources such as customer interviews, customer survey comments, focus groups, incident and safety reports, news articles, emails, and journal articles.

12/1/2003... Crawdad Technologies, LLC and Arizona State University won a Phase I STTR for “Centering Resonance Analysis: A superior data approach for mining textual data streams” (link).

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.

Mr. Dan Ballard is Vice President of Engineering for Crawdad. He serves as Manager for Crawdad’s STTR projects. Mr. Ballard’s primary research focus has been in the area of intelligent systems, knowledge-based systems, and intelligent agents. Mr. Ballard has successfully managed the commercialization of a number of these efforts, including commercialization of an intelligent desktop assistant originally developed for the Air Force. In addition, Mr. Ballard commercialized intelligent agent technology developed for NASA. This technology is marketed as the AgentBuilder® intelligent agent construction toolkit, and has generated global sales.

Mr. Dan O’Neill provides business development services for Crawdad. Mr. O'Neill is an experienced technology entrepreneur, business developer and entrepreneurial coach. He was co-founder and President of Hologix, a venture backed enterprise software firm, which imported $100 million of revenue and capital into Arizona. In his roles as CEO of DJT Enterprises and Principal of Tech Continuum Ventures, Mr. O'Neill delivers entrepreneurial coaching and "strategic deal making services" to a variety of technology and life science companies.

We also wish to acknowledge the numerous partnerships that provide Crawdad excellent support. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has provided partial funding for development of Crawdad's NLP engine. Mr. Payam Refaeilzadeh and the ASU Software Factory have provided us with key software engineering support over the last four years. Crawdad’s NLP engine is facilitated by the parsing engine provided by Connexor, a leading provider of linguistic processing software. Crawdad’s business development has been facilitated by Sharon Ballard and ASU Technopolis, and Crawdad owns exclusive license to all CRA-based technology through partnership with Arizona Technology Enterprises.