Text Mining and Visualization

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Additionally, an author’s work is randomised to produce a random sampling to determine

how different the actual works are from a random book to show whether the order of words

in a book contributes to an author’s style. The results are visualised using R and show some

evidence that different authors have similarities of style that is not random.

Part 2 of the book describes the use of the Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME)

and again contains two chapters. Chapter 3 introduces the text processing capabilities of

KNIME and is titled “Introduction to the KNIME Text Processing Extension”. KNIME is

a popular open-source platform that uses a visual paradigm to allow processes to be rapidly

assembled and executed to allow all data processing,