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

Dedication

To my mother, Carlyn Elder, who has been a lifelong learner and gifted teacher.

— John Elder

First and foremost, I dedicate this book to my mother and my father, who passed away in 2008. Both of them encouraged and supported me throughout my life. I also dedicate this book to my wife, Handan, and our two children, Altug and Serra. They are my inspiration and my motivation.

— Dursun Delen

To the practitioners of predictive analytics in honor of their contributions to knowledge and progress.

— Thomas Hill

To my grown children, Rebecca and Matthew, who told me on my sixtieth birthday, “Dad, you need to grow up and do something valuable with your life. … Start writing books!”

— Gary Miner

To my wife, Jean, whose longsuffering ...