Media & Technology - Text Mining - Activity

Introduction | Presentation | Activity

Is text mining useful for your research? (5 minutes)

Think about your research question(s) or topic.

1. How would you frame your research question Links to an external site. so that it can be answered by text mining? 
2. To do text mining, we want to quantify some features of texts Links to an external site..
   • What do you want to measure?
   • How would you want to measure it? 
3. Data is not objective. Human intervention and decision-making is involved in every stage of text mining, including data collection Links to an external site..
   • What are the potential decisions you would have to make?
   • What are the decisions already made for your data? 

Try out Voyant Tools (5 minutes)

Take a few minutes to upload some text to Voyant Tools Links to an external site. and play around with it. What questions does this raise for you?

Tip: Don’t have any text to upload? Try uploading a free e-book available on https://www.gutenberg.org Links to an external site..

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