More than words - text analysis in R

Too busy to read news yourself? Want to see how social media comments can impact your politics, economics and your daily life? Challenged to manage a constant high flow of information in your business? Want to dig into digital advertising and business intelligence?

Words are shallow but have deep impact. This workshop will uncover some of the secrets of automated text processing and will look at the tools available for textual analysis in R.

We will start with a general principles of text analysis, including text pre-processing and analysis of word frequencies, move to the sentiment analysis, word clouds and topic modelling. We will review several R packages, including tm, wordcloud, SnowballC and tidytext.

This session will be run by Dr. Maria Prokofieva, a senior lecturer with Victoria University's College of Business. Our fantastic sponsor Zendesk will be hosting our workshop and providing us with drinks for the evening. Food will also be available.

This will be a hands-on session - you are welcome to bring your laptop and your own ideas for research and fun.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there.

R-Ladies Melbourne