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Week 2

A fundamental requirement to perform text mining is to get your text in a tidy format and being able to perform word frequency analysis. Text is often in an unstructured format so performing even the most basic analysis requires some re-structuring. Read and work through the Tidying Text and Word Frequency tutorial to learn how to tidy unstructured text.

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Tutorials & Resources

Please read & work through the following prior to our first class.

• Read the Preface and Chapter 1 of Text Mining with R book.
• Work through the Text Mining: Creating Tidy Text tutorial and complete the exercises at the end of the tutorial.

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Class Prep

TBD