Title of the Event: Turning Words into Data: Exploring the Power of Text Mining
Date: 17th January 2025
Time: 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm
Venue: 203, SICSR
Mode: Offline
Event Co-coordinator: Ms. Priya Ambede
Speaker: Dr. Prafulla B. Bafna, Assistant Professor
In an insightful session conducted on 17th January 2025, Dr. Prafulla B. Bafna, Assistant Professor, explored the transformative potential of text mining in the evolving landscape of data science. While conventional data analysis has traditionally focused on structured data such as numbers and tables, the session highlighted how text mining empowers data scientists to uncover meaningful insights from unstructured content like emails, feedback, articles, and social media posts.
Dr. Bafna introduced participants to key Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques including tokenization, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition (NER), and topic modeling. These methods, he explained, enable the conversion of raw text into structured, analyzable data, unlocking new dimensions of analysis and decision-making. The session emphasized how this fusion of language and analytics is reshaping industries ranging from marketing and finance to medicine and public policy, proving that words, when decoded effectively, are powerful vehicles for data-driven insights.
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