Text Mining with R
27 Nov 2023 - 28 Nov 2023
This course is a hands-on course covering the use of text mining tools for the purpose of data analysis. It covers basic text handling, natural language engineering and statistical modelling on top of textual data.
Practical information:
27 Nov 2023 - 28 Nov 2023
Vandenheuvelinstituut, PC-room 01.24 - Dekenstraat 2, 3000 Leuven
English
Target audience: R users and people with a data science background
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- Prerequisites: initial experience in R
- Price: €100-€600
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The following items are covered:
- Cleaning of text data, regular expressions
- String distances
- Graphical displays of text data
- Natural language processing: stemming, parts-of-speech tagging, tokenization, lemmatisation
- Sentiment analysis
- Statistical topic detection modelling (latent diriclet allocation)
- Automatic classification using predictive modelling based on text data
- Visualisation of correlations & topics
- Word embeddings
- Document similarities & Text alignment
Teacher / speaker
Jan Wijffels is the founder of www.bnosac.be - a consultancy company specialised in statistical analysis and data mining. He holds a Master in Commercial Engineering, a MSc in Statistics and a Master in Artificial Intelligence and has been using R for 10 years, developing and deploying R-based solutions for clients in the private sector. He has developed and co-developed the R packages ffbase, ETLUtils, RMOA and RMyrrix.
