Text Analysis

Presenter: Joe Sutherland

Plan

We will cover the following topics

• Models of structured and unstructured data;
• Document Vectorization;
• Text features – what are they?
• Pre-Processing: Stemming and Stopping;
• Bag-of-words model;
• Sparse matrices.

Setup Instructions

We will use python and homebrew to install additional packages, so please make sure you have them up and running. You can find tips on installation here

Link to Workshop Materials

• Workshop presentation and useful materials for learning about text analysis can be found in this Dropbox Folder.