tidytext Basics

Learn about the basic structure of a tidytext program.

Key concepts of tidytext

tidytext is designed to streamline specific text analysis tasks, making it a valuable tool for text mining and natural language processing. It is focused on a limited but important set of tasks, such as:

  • Tokenization: tidytext helps us break down text documents into individual words or tokens. The unnest_tokens() function is commonly used for this purpose, allowing us to specify how we want to tokenize our text (such as by word or by sentence).

  • Sentiment analysis: tidytext includes functions for performing sentiment analysis on text data. We can use prebuilt sentiment ...

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