Text Analytics in Marketing

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to text mining and text analytics tailored for marketers. It presents key techniques for analyzing, compressing, classifying, and visualizing textual data and user-generated content (UGC), with a particular emphasis on using R software. These methods enable readers to effectively prepare and manipulate textual data to uncover actionable marketing insights.In today’s digital landscape, analyzing online chatter, sentiment, preferences, and other forms of electronic word-of-mouth has become an essential skill for marketing researchers and professionals. Through a rich collection of examples, program code, and hands-on exercises, this book equips both students and marketing managers with the theoretical foundation and practical skills needed to apply text-based data analysis to contemporary marketing challenges.