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The latest in text and database mining

• Chase Davis The Des Moines (Iowa) Register
• Brant Houston University of Illinois

We're used to working with data in rows and columns, but some of the best and most useful data is stored in free text. This session will explore the tools and concepts behind extracting and analyzing data from documents: entity extraction, sentiment and topic analysis, word frequencies and more.

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