Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications

Chapter 8

Prediction in Text Mining

The Data Mining Algorithms of Predictive Analytics

Contents

Preamble

Introduction

The Power of Simple Descriptive Statistics, Graphics, and Visual Text Mining

Visual Data Mining

Predictive Modeling (Supervised Learning)

Statistical Models Versus General Predictive Modeling

Clustering (Unsupervised Learning)

Singular Value Decomposition, Principal Components Analysis, and Dimension Reduction

Association and Link Analysis

Summary

Postscript

References

Preamble

Predicting the future has always been at the center of man’s fascination with the world around us. The Oracle of Delphi was consulted by the Ancient Greeks to learn if a war would be won. Nostradamus and (lately) the Mayan calendar claimed to predict ...