Text Mining and Visualization

Markus Hofmann is a lecturer at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, where he focuses on the areas of data mining, text mining, data exploration and visualization, and business intelligence. Dr. Hofmann has also worked as a technology expert with 20 different organizations, such as Intel. He earned a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc in computing from the Dublin Institute of Technology, and a BA in information management systems.Andrew Chisholm is a certified RapidMiner Master who created both basic and advanced RapidMiner video training content for RapidMinerResources.com. He has worked as a software developer, systems integrator, project manager, solution architect, customer-facing presales consultant, and strategic consultant. He earned an MSc in business intelligence and data mining from the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown and an MA in physics from Oxford University.

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"The timing of this book could not be better. It focuses on text mining, text being one of the data sources still to be truly harvested, and on open-source tools for the analysis and visualization of textual data. … Markus and Andrew have done an outstanding job bringing together this volume of both introductory and advanced material about text mining using modern open-source technology in a highly accessible way."—From the Foreword by Professor Dr. Michael Berthold, University of Konstanz, Germany