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Text Mining & Web Scraping (DCS 625)

Term: 2024-2025 Summer

Faculty

Murchtricia Jones
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Brief Bio: Hello all! I am Dr. Murchtricia Jones. The Director of Data Science and Chair of the School of Computing, Applied Sciences, and Engineering. I am so excited to be a part of your educational journey. 

I am a wife and mother of two. I am from St. Croix, USVI, a beautiful Caribbean island. I can be bribed with high-quality chocolate, oxtails, and jollof rice. Haha! 

Description

Students will learn to use programming languages for social media mining. Classroom practices include getting data from Twitter to perform text analysis and sentiment analysis, automated extracting & processing of web contents, etc. The techniques covered in the course will be valuable in later courses like Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learnings.