Mining Textual Data Using SAS Text Miner for SAS 9

Duration: 2.0 days CEU: 1.2

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should have experience using SAS Enterprise Miner to do predictive modeling, or you should have completed the Predictive Modeling Using SAS Enterprise Miner 5.1 or Applied Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner 5 course.

Course Contents

Preliminaries

foundations
processing textual data
converting unstructured text to structured data
transformations
applications

Exploratory Analysis of Document Collections

simple statistical analysis
exploration using Text Miner
clustering

Predictive Modeling

model inputs derived from text mining
memory-based reasoning
predictive modeling with text mining inputs
conclusion

Software Addressed

This course addresses the following software product(s): SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Text Miner.

Course Materials

Students receive a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.

Registration

To register for this course in the US, call 800-333-7660 or visit support.sas.com/training. This course is also available for on-site training, or you can create a custom course by combining material from several courses. For more details, contact SAS Education in Cary, NC at 919-531-7321 or send e-mail to training@sas.com.