Category Archives: Text Mining

Talk: Metadata and Search

Posted on August 8, 2013 by David Ainsworth

Metadata provides structure and organization, both enabling and constraining searches, Big Data analysis and the use of other tools to look at what it tags. It’s sometimes invisible to users, often ignored by them in any case, and yet can … Continue reading →

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Talk & Teach: My sometimes friend the database

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Holland Hopson

Databases are my friends. Every application that I use and care about has a database built into it somewhere: digital audio workstation, video editor, address book, calendar, to-do list (don’t forget online shopping…). Important research is predicated on the analysis … Continue reading →

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Proposal: a play session on text analysis tools

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Thomas Wilson

This session will have elements of teach and play.  Bring your favorite web-based text analysis tool (i.e., virtually, of course) and share what you like, what it does well, and what you wish it did.  I’ll start with Textal.

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Finding needles in haystacks

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Jody DeRidder

The more information is collected, the more difficult it becomes to sift it, organize it, and find what you need. Statistical data analysis (data analytics) is the process of this type of analysis, encompassing natural language processing and more.  This … Continue reading →

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