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Amazon Foods Reviews Activity – by Tank Brigade

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Following our previous post on how to create a word cloud in R, we have decided to try those techniques out. By inspecting the data, we observed that some words seemed to appear more often in reviews with higher scores, while some others were more likely to appear in reviews with lower scores. Our initial hypothesis is that some words are positively correlated with good reviews and some words are negatively correlated with good reviews. Continue reading →

The Text Mining ‘tm’ Package in R

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Tank Group – Haider Shah, Tony Guo and Chris Pang

To perform text mining in R, there is a useful package called ‘tm’ which provides several functions for text handling, processing and management. The package uses the concept of a ‘corpus’ which is a collection of text documents to operate upon. Text can be stored either in-memory in R via a Volatile Corpus or on an external data store such as a database via a Permanent Corpus.

Example: Building a Word Cloud from Twitter Feeds
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