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This guide was created by Rachel Liu, Research Data and Digital Scholarship Text and Data Mining Assistant. Rachel is a graduate student in Education Data Mining.
What Is Text Analysis?
Computational Text Analysis, Computer-aided Text Analysis, Text Mining,and the abbreviation TDM are broad terms for searching, organizing, and analyzing large amounts of text data.
Why use TDM techniques?
TDM can help reveal new patterns or information from a large body of work - leading to the development of new knowledge, of a larger evidence-based practice. TDM enables researchers to analyze thousands of documents and terabytes of data, allowing for a comprehensive look into research questions.
The methods used to process corpora vary widely between disciplines, and are based on insights from machine learning, statistics, computational linguistics, sociology, and many other fields.
Examples where Researchers used text analysis to answer their research question