A Fun Introduction to Natural Language Processing and Text Mining with R

*New Information - Arrive at 6:15 for a tour of the new Carvana headquarters, food at 6:30, talk immediately thereafter.

Do you want to quantitatively analyze a large Twitter stream? Categorize and prioritize 100,000 emails or a gig of customer product reviews? You can with the tools and techniques we will demonstrate in this meetup.

We will briefly review the principles that underlie powerful and useful techniques such as Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling, then we will dive into a real world example of topic modeling on a large manufacturing quality data set. We will also discuss the realities of deriving meaningful results from the messy and inconsistent language that people routinely use in personal and work communication.

The talk will last about an hour and is practical and well-illustrated with graphics and real-world examples and not unduly boring compared to most of these sort of talks.

There will be some examples of code that will be in the R programming language, but you will be able to follow the presentation and grasp the concepts and methods even if you don’t know R.

Prizes will be awarded!

*New Information - Arrive at 6:15 for a tour of the new Carvana headquarters, food at 6:30, talk immediately thereafter.