Data Mining Methods for the Content Analyst

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INTRODUCTION

Nearly all fields that involve the synthesis of large amounts of information have begun to explore digital analysis methodologies in recent years. Countless projects have been launched that exploit advances in computer techniques to perform innovative, but computationally complex, forms of analysis on large warehouses of textual data. The myriad underlying algorithms powering such analyses hail from fields as varied as linguistics to psychology, but the underlying theme is the same: to leverage large quantities of cheap computing power to perform analyses previously unthinkable at scales formerly intractable.

This book is designed to provide an introduction to current digital analysis techniques and focus on these technologies ...