Starting text mining with R
Like a lot of Product Managers I use Excel with tools like Google Analytics a lot. Probably like many people I find Excel very frustrating. So having been technical in a previous life , I decided to give R a try . What is R? R is an open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics that is supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. After taking a simple intro course, I started to look around at examples of doing more interesting things. From a work point of view Topic modelling seemed really interesting. Unfortunately a lot of the example code missed a large step (or two) in being useful! So I forked the most complete example that I could find in GitHub called " Text-Mining ". This did lead me down a bit of a rabbit hole but eventually I had an R script that collected data, cleaned ...