A beginner's guide to text mining and analytics Why do we need text mining and analytics? From centuries humans are generating data which is either in the form of numbers or texts. As we advanced in solving business problems, we started using the numbers to solve critical business challenges. However, there was still untamed, un-utilized texts holding significant information which was difficult and time consuming to comprehend and was hardly used. It is estimated that 80% of the world’s data is unstructured in forms of some or the other text documents. Thus text mining and analytics enabled us to extract the valuable information stored in the texts and leverage it to solve business problems in timely, unbiased, and efficient manner. What is text mining and Analytics? Text mining is a practice for analyzing and processing large corpus of semi structured and unstructured text data (like articles, website text, blog posts, journals, surveys, reviews, ema...