TY - BOOK AU - Ledolter,Johannes AU - VanderVelde,Lea TI - Analyzing textual information: from words to meanings through numbers SN - 9781544390000 AV - H61 .L43 2022 PY - 2022/// CY - Los Angeles, California PB - SAGE Publications, Inc. KW - Social sciences KW - Research KW - Methodology N1 - Includes index and bibliographical references; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "Researchers in the social sciences and beyond are dealing more and more with massive quantities of text data requiring analysis, from historical letters to the constant stream of content in social media. Traditional texts on statistical analysis have focused on numbers, but this book will provide a practical introduction to the quantitative analysis of textual data. Using up-to-date R methods, this book will take readers through the text analysis process, from text mining and pre-processing the text to final analysis. It includes two major case studies using historical and more contemporary text data to demonstrate the practical applications of these methods. Currently, there is no introductory how-to book on textual data analysis with R that is up-to-date and applicable across the social sciences. Code and a variety of additional resources are available on an accompanying website for the book"-- ER -