R Text Mining & Machine Learning Workshop

The workshop will primarily cover R's Text Mining package (tm); as well as a couple ML packages. The main parts of the workshop wll include:

• converting text into a usable form (a matrix of terms/words and their associated documents)

• performing basic analysis (frequencies and creating wordclouds)

• applying Classification via a basic Machine Learning algorithm (Bayes)

• one of the examples will be analyzing Twitter data (which is covered in the earlier API workshop). Sentiment Analysis will only be touched on briefly as this is more of a specialty topic.