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Text analysis

As explained in Starting Data Analytics with Generative AI and Python

Text analysis is the computational examination of textual content to identify linguistic patterns, themes, frequencies, or other meaningful properties.

Text analysis computationally examines written content to find patterns, themes, frequencies, and other useful properties. It turns large volumes of messy, unstructured material—such as reviews, emails, and notes—into evidence for business decisions, without requiring someone to read everything manually. section 5.0

Common text-analysis tasks include:

  • Perform sentiment analysis to understand expressed opinions. section 2.6
  • Use topic modeling to identify recurring subjects and issues. section 2.6
  • Count words or phrases to reveal frequent themes and patterns. section 2.6
  • Clean spelling, punctuation, capitalization, headers, metadata, abbreviations, slang, jargon, and other noise before interpreting results. section 5.0

Customer-review analysis

A customer-facing team can examine review titles and messages alongside review scores, dates, and response times. Text findings can expose common complaints or themes, while raw comments and sample cases should be checked manually before decisions rely on them. section 5.2 section 2.6

DataFrame name: df_order_reviews

Columns:
- review_id (object): 
Unique identifier of each review.
- order_id (object): 
Identifier of the order being reviewed.
- review_score (int64): 
Note ranging from 1 to 5 given by the customer on a satisfaction survey.
- review_comment_title (object): 
Comment title from the review left by the customer in Portuguese.
- review_comment_message (object): 
Comment message from the review left by the customer in Portuguese.
- review_creation_date (datetime64[ns]): 
The timestamp of the review creation.
- review_answer_timestamp  (datetime64[ns]): 
I am not sure what this one actually is.

Inspect the review dataset structure, including Portuguese comment titles and messages, scores, identifiers, and timestamps. section 2.6

Generative AI can support information gathering, analytical planning, interpretation, coding, and quick initial analyses through direct interaction or an API. Dedicated libraries may provide greater accuracy for specialized vocabulary, ambiguity, consistency, speed, and scalability, so outputs require validation. section 5.0 section 5.1.3

How Starting Data Analytics with Generative AI and Python covers it

How deep it goes
Explains practical tasks and data-quality problems, but stops short of detailed linguistic algorithms or implementation workflows.
Examples
Analyzes customer-review comments for sentiment, topics, word frequencies, themes, complaints, and patterns.
What it assumes
Assumes access to textual data and teaches readers to account for errors, irrelevant content, linguistic noise, and unreliable outputs.
What you can do after
Apply it to perform initial review-text analyses, then validate findings against raw records and suitable analytical tools.
How it connects
Connects text analysis with text mining, data cleaning, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, exploratory data analysis, and generative AI.

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