Text Mining: A Guidebook for the Social Sciences (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781483369341)

Online communities generate massive volumes of natural language data and the social sciences continue to learn how to best make use of this new information and the technology available for analyzing it. Text Mining: A Guidebook for the Social Sciences brings together a broad range of contemporary qualitative and quantitative methods to provide strategic and practical guidance on analyzing large text collections. This accessible book, written by sociologist Gabe Ignatow and computer scientist Rada Mihalcea, surveys the fast-changing landscape of data sources, programming languages, software packages, and methods of analysis available today. Suitable for novice and experienced researchers alike, the book will help readers use text mining techniques more efficiently and productively.

Author: Gabe Ignatow, Rada F. Mihalcea
ISBN-10: 148336934X
ISBN-13: 9781483369341
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2016
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.40w x 0.40d