Quantitative Text Analysis and Scaling in R

Overview

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By the end of this project, you will learn about the concept of document scaling in textual analysis in R. You will know how to load and pre-process a data set of text documents by converting the data set into a corpus and document feature matrix. You will know how to run an unsupervised document scaling model and explore and plot the scaling outcome.

Syllabus

Project Overview

By the end of this project, you will learn about the concept of document scaling in textual analysis in R. You will know how to load and pre-process a data set of text documents by converting the data set into a corpus and document feature matrix. You will know how to run an unsupervised document scaling model and explore and plot the scaling outcome. This project is aimed at beginners who have a basic familiarity with the statistical programming language R and the RStudio environment, or people with a small amount of experience who would like to learn how to scale documents in text analysis.