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Text Analysis -Part 1

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Hi Readers, Recently I was going through some text analytics activities at work and learned some techniques for text analytics and mining. In this series of posts, I will be sharing my experiences and learnings. Introduction Firstly the jargon Text Analysis and Text Mining are sub domains of the term Data Mining and are used interchangeably in most scenarios. Broadly  Text Analysis  refers to, Extracting information from textual data keeping the problem for which we want to get data in mind. and  Text Mining  refers to, the process of getting textual data. Nowadays, a large quantity of data is produced by humans.Data is growing faster than ever before and by the year 2020, about  1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human being on the planet and one of the main components of this data will be textual data. Some of the main sources of textual data are Blogs Articles Websites Facebook Comments Discussion Forums Reviews