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

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Scoring Retention and Success of Incoming College Freshmen Using Text Analytics

Linda Miner, PhD and Gary D. Miner, PhD,     8110 S. Florence Place Tulsa, OK 74137

Mary Jones, PhD,     Provost and Chief Academic Officer Acting Dean of the College of Business, Education and Kinesiology Southern Nazarene University

Contents

Introduction

Part I. Predictive Modeling Using Only the Numeric Variables

Part II. Text Mining and Text Variables’ Word Frequencies and Concepts

Introduction

Because of the difficulty of getting a good set of university “institutional research data,” this tutorial uses a hypothetical data set that is biased toward giving an accurate predictive model with just the numeric data. However, in a second analysis a text ...