Nov 22, 2024  
2021-2022 Graduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BIA 6304 - Text Mining


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This course will introduce the essential techniques of text mining, sometimes referred to as text analytics, which involves the retrieval and preparation of text for use with data mining’s standard predictive methods. Students will be introduced to methods to extract text from a variety of sources (e.g. web, social media, documents) and will learn how to process text and build a corpus to appropriately address business questions.  Students will also be introduced to sentiment analysis, document similarity, and topic modeling. The primary software tool for this class is Python.

Prerequisite: BIA 6301  is required; and BIA 6303  is recommended.