What this book covers

Chapter 1, What is Text Analysis? There is no time like now to do text analysis - we have an abundance of easily available data, powerful and free open source tools to conduct our analysis and research on Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, and computing with text is progressing at a pace we have not seen before. In this chapter, we will go into details about what exactly text analysis is, and the motivations for studying and understanding text analysis.

Chapter 2, Python Tips for Text Analysis. We mentioned in Chapter 1, What is Text Analysis, that we will be using Python throughout the book because it is an easy-to-use and powerful language. In this chapter, we will substantiate these claims, while also providing ...

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