Text Analytics and Mining Detailed Definitions: Step Two in Advanced Analytics Introduction

I hope you are enjoying the "Advanced Analytics Introduction" blog post series; here is a link to the previous segment (Step One) to provide some helpful background. In the previous installment, I provided an overview of the advanced analytics, data science and text analytics concepts. In this blog post, I review detailed definitions of text analytics and mining concepts to provide more context on this rapidly evolving market. In his book "Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications", John Elder, Ph.D., characterized the text analytics concept best when he stated the following: The diagrams below also come from the same publication by Dr. Elder. In this first diagram, the text mining field is separated into seven "practice areas."