Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications

Tutorial K

Predicting Micro Lending Loan Defaults Using SAS® Text Miner

Richard Foley,     SAS, Raleigh, NC, USA

Contents

Introduction

About SAS® Text Miner

Project Overview

Preparing the Data and Setting Up the Diagram

Creating a New Project

Registering the Table

Creating a New Diagram

Text Filter Node

Text Topic Node

Creating the Text Mining Flow

Inserting the Data

Understanding Text Parsing

Synonyms and Multiterm Words

Defining Topics

Other Uses of the Interactive Topic Viewer

Making the Predictive Model

Final Results

Viewing the Reports

Text Only Decision Tree

All Variable Text and Relational

Conclusion

In this section, we use SAS® Text Miner, a plug-in to SAS® Enterprise Miner, to combine text mining techniques with standard data mining ...