Statistics 325 - Text Analytics

Text Analytics

Spring
2025
01
4.00
Nicholas Horton

TU/TH | 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM

Amherst College
STAT-325-01-2425S
nhorton@amherst.edu

Text analytics is a form of natural language processing that utilizes computational systems to process, find patterns, classify, and model information contained within unstructured text documents. These methods are attractive because they can be applied to large collections of documents that would be infeasible to undertake by hand. In this course, students will interact with a variety of text sources with the goal of finding insights, identifying patterns, extracting meaning, and communicating results. Topics will include data wrangling, tokenization, regular expressions, n-grams, named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, classification, cloud computing, dynamic visualization tools, and ethical considerations.

Students may not receive credit for both STAT210 and STAT325

Spring semester. Professor Horton

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: quantitative work, problem sets, quizzes or exams, group work, use of computational software, projects, oral presentations

Permission is required for interchange registration during all registration periods.