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Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Nonstructured Text Data Applications follows in the tradition of the popular Handbook of Statistical Analysis & Data Mining Applications (Elsevier, 2009), which was authored by three of this new text’s six authors: Robert Nisbet, John Elder, and Gary Miner. Three additional authors—Thomas Hill, Dursun Delen, and Andrew Fast—contributed to this book, each bringing substantial experience in text mining.

Practical Text Mining was written to be used as an application-oriented text mining handbook. At some thousand pages in length, the authors have created a text that will to my mind serve as the standard resource in the field for many years. The authors have managed to provide readers ...

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