A 2015 research on text mining re-visited

In 2015 I did a small research project around text mining. Not with the goal to break down boundaries of knowledge and create a PHD worthy multi-hundred hour sweat pouring discovery, but to see how easy it is to bring complex IT concept close to audiences, who are not familiar with such topics, maybe not even with digital technology at all.

Well, 5 years passed and I thought it is time to re-visit some of my thoughts and see if they are still relevant – lets see how life changed, is it easier to democratize IT pro concepts now as it was 5 years ago?

Looking at my notes I found that some things changed….

Nowadays there IS an initiative to understand, learn and even engage in activities that we call becoming “citizen developers”

There are a lot of tools available to support this as well, from specific 1 trick ponies to swiss army knives – so again, the door is open for people of every expertise!

…and some things remained the same:

The goal of doing analysis and the expected results are still often in the dark – and we are doing things just for the sake of doing them. I guess business goal clarity and what to use the tools for could still evolve!

The topic of text mining is still super exciting – but I might be biased on this one 🙂

If you are interested to take a look at my research presentation, feel free to do so here! And I encourage you check out your researches from a while back – it can give you some nice perspective of where we came from!

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