Text Mining in R

Overview

This workshop offered a practical demonstration of text mining using real-world Twitter data. Participants learned to access the Twitter API, clean and tokenize text, analyze sentiment, and mine topics from tweets. The session emphasized transforming unstructured text into meaningful insights.

Learning Outcomes

• Clean, tidy, and tokenize textual data for analysis.
  
• Apply TF-IDF to assess word importance.
  
• Conduct sentiment analysis to interpret social media data.
  
• Use topic modeling techniques to identify themes within text.

Key Skills Gained

• Text data preprocessing
  
• Sentiment analysis
  
• TF-IDF analysis
  
• Topic modeling techniques