Hands-on Text Mining and Analytics

This course provides an unique opportunity for you to learn key components of text mining and analytics aided by the real world datasets and the text mining toolkit written in Java. Hands-on experience in core text mining techniques including text preprocessing, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling help learners be trained to be a competent data scientists. Empowered by bringing lecture notes together with lab sessions based on the y-TextMiner toolkit developed for the class, learners will be able to develop interesting text mining applications

• Develop effective text mining applications
• Gain deep understanding of text mining components
• Apply analytics using real-world datasets
• Use y-TextMiner toolkit in lab sessions for application development

• Basic familiarity with the topic and its common terminology
• Readiness to practice through applied exercises or case-based work