Text and Data Mining

Text and data mining (TDM) uses computational methods to extract and analyze large quantities of text files or data sets to quickly identify patterns and relationships. TDM methods include information retrieval, named entity recognition, part of speech

Support for your TDM

For advice and guidance on getting started with your TDM project, you can

  • Contact your liaison librarian for help finding corpora or data we have access to and associated TDM rights.
  • Contact the library's Digital Scholarship and Communications Office (DiSC) for help with text and data mining instruction and project consultation. The DiSC office provides synchronous workshops and self-paced, asynchronous learning modules for introductory programming.
  • Contact the Data Science Institute for large-scale data mining projects: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/datascience/