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Introduction to text mining and analysis

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In this self-paced workshop you will learn steps to: 

  • Build data sets: find where and how to gather textual data for your corpus or data set.  
  • Prepare data for analysis: explore useful processes and tools to prepare and clean textual data for analysis
  • Analyse data: identify different types of analysis used to interrogate content and uncover new insights

At the end of these lessons you should be able to:

  • Implement a basic workflow for researching with digital text 
  • Identify different types of textual data and usage considerations  
  • Find textual data for digital analysis 
  • Choose the best tool for your dataset at each stage of the digital research process. 

Throughout these lessons you can download and play with software and datasets, and try out simple data cleaning and analysis activities. There are liks to further suport and videos to guide you through the lessons.

Want to text mine via webscraping? Check out these Web Scraping with Python lessons.

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