Defining text & data analytics
Brian Howard, Sales & Marketing Manager, talks about the differences between text and data analytics and how we use these insights for better business decisions.
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Creating a domain-specific dictionary using extraction nodes in PolyAnalyst
PolyAnalyst comes with several different default dictionaries such as a morphology dictionary, a synonym dictionary, and a dictionary of human names. Those generic dictionaries cover general terms that are useful for a variety of fields. However, when you work with a domain-specific dataset, such as a medical dataset or a car repair dataset, it is crucial to have domain-specific dictionaries that include related terms. Why do you need domain-specific dictionaries?…
What is self-documenting analysis?
A classical annoyance of data analysis is the extra work required to properly record what you have done. Despite benefits of enabling others to pick up where you left off, or to help you revisit your work and still understand it later, the tedium of proper documentation tends to result in little to no documentation whatsoever. Subsequently, failure to document forms technical debt. The value of your acquired insight is…
Challenges in Analyzing Online Communication
Online communication, also known as Computer-mediated Communication (CMC), is any communication among individuals via networked devices, such as computers and mobile phones1. Online communication is not only textual, but may include other modes of communication: images, audio, video, or a combination of those. For example, we may participate in a Facebook conversation using a GIF animation along with text or we may use video, audio, and text at the same…