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2016-2018 Graduate Catalog 
    
2016-2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BIA 6304 - Text Mining


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This course will introduce the essential techniques of text mining, understood as the extension of data mining’s standard predictive methods to unstructured text. Students will also learn web scraping techniques and collection of unstructured data from social media sites like Twitter, as well as a company web site. An introduction to processing images will also be included. Students will also be introduced to sentiment analysis and natural language processing. Statistics and exposure to any programming language is required. The primary software tool for this class will be Python & R. Tableau will also be incorporated.

Prerequisite: BIA 6301 , BIA 6311 , BIA 6312  or consent of the program director.