Abstract
Text mining and social network analysis have both come to prominence in conjunction with increasing interest in Big Data. Both deal in large quantities of data, much of it unstructured, and a lot of the potential added value of Big Data comes from applying these two data analysis methods. We shall begin by discussing some of the ways in which text mining can be applied to predictive analytics, before moving on to discuss social network analysis.
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© 2014 Steven Finlay
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Finlay, S. (2014). Text Mining and Social Network Analysis. In: Predictive Analytics, Data Mining and Big Data. Business in the Digital Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379283_9
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