DSC (0207) 785 - Text Analytics

Credits: 3.00

Students will learn to access and gather information from social media using application programming interfaces (API), and to use tools and techniques to analyze large amount of text extracted from social media, internet, etc. Text analytics are performed using Python, R and other text analytics tools.

Prerequisite 1: DSC 681
Course Learning Goals: Upon completing the course, students will:

1. Summarize the current social media landscape and explain its importance to business and other organizations

2. Contrast the role of different social media apps for business organizations

3. Explain the concept of sentimental analysis and its importance is text analytics

4. Construct an API that allow the user to acquire information from social media

5. Prepare data obtained from social media for future analysis

6. Compare different software applications used to analyze social media data

7. Interpret results obtained from text analysis and other social media data