Text mining is the art and science of extracting insights from large amounts of natural language. The topics of Text Mining will help students add natural language processing techniques to their research, and data science toolset. As a technical course with some machine learning elements, limited exposure to programming, graduate level statistics and mathematical theory is needed but the vast majority of the course content will be focused on applying popular text mining methods. As a result, the target audience may also include qualitative researchers looking to add quantitative analysis to interviews, media and other language based field research as long as participants have some basic R background.
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Students will be able to think systematically about how information can be obtained from diverse natural language. Students will learn how to implement a variety of popular text mining algorithms in R (a free and open-source software) to identify insights, extract information and measure emotional content.
