Week 7: Supervised and Unsupervised Learning

This week answers the following questions:

• How can we train classifiers to predict categorical outcomes from textual data? (Tuesday)
• How can we discover latent structure in textual data without pre-defined categories? (Thursday)

Slides

There are no slides for Tuesday, just an R script.

Thursday’s slides can be found here.

Alternatively, read them here (probably not the best if you’re visiting this page on a mobile device):