Prepare

Due: October 17, 2024

Learning objectives

• Review common workflows for preparing text data for machine learning
• Explain how word embeddings are used to reduce the dimensionality of text data
• Estimate shallow machine learning models for text classification

Preparations

💨 Review

• SMLTAR ch 7 - classification
• Do not throw away your shot: Text mining and Hamilton
• Slay: Predicting song artist based on lyrics

📖 Read

• SMLTAR ch 5 - word embeddings

📚 Additional resources

• Text Mining with R
• Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R