Text and Social Media Analytics

Postgraduate | 2026

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Mode
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Your studies will be on-campus, and may include some online delivery
On campus
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Area/Catalogue
COMP X300
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Course ID
205854
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Campus
Mawson Lakes, Adelaide City Campus East
Level of study
Level of study
Postgraduate
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Unit value
6
Course owner
Course owner
School of Mathematical Science
Course coordinator
Course coordinator
Josh Chopin
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Course level
2
Work Integrated Learning course
Work Integrated Learning course
No
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Inbound study abroad and exchange
Inbound study abroad and exchange
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Yes
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University-wide elective course
Yes
Single course enrollment
Single course enrolment
Yes

Course overview

This course provides students an overview of contemporary natural language processing with students gaining hands-on experience implementing NLP with real-world data. This course aims to equip learners with the knowledge and skills to analyse textual datasets. Building upon concepts of data science practice, this course will look at the challenges and methods used for textual datasets. By examining the methods of tokenization, sentiment analysis and topic modelling, the course shows how patterns in textual data can be identified.

Course learning outcomes

  • Demonstrate an ability to read text into R and then prepare it with tokenisation, stop words and word embedding
  • Understand the importance of representative datasets and the ethics of using text from social sources
  • Demonstrate the ability to apply sentiment analysis and topic modelling to real datasets
  • Demonstrate the ability to interpret the output from sentiment analysis and topic modelling

Availability

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Census date
Fri 27/03/2026
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Enrol by date
Fri 13/03/2026
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Last day to W
Fri 10/04/2026
Last day to WF
Last day to WF
Fri 08/05/2026

Class details

Mawson Lakes

Class number
Class number 21157
Section
Section FR01
Size
Size 25
Available
Available 25
Dates Days Time Campus Location Instructor
24 Feb - 14 Apr Tuesday 10:10am - 12pm Mawson Lakes Sir Charles Todd, SCT2-38
5 May - 2 Jun Tuesday 10:10am - 12pm Mawson Lakes Sir Charles Todd, SCT2-38
Class number
Class number 21158
Section
Section PR01
Size
Size 25
Available
Available 25
Dates Days Time Campus Location Instructor
24 Feb - 14 Apr Tuesday 1:10pm - 2pm Mawson Lakes Building P, P2-43
5 May - 2 Jun Tuesday 1:10pm - 2pm Mawson Lakes Building P, P2-43

Adelaide City Campus East

Class number
Class number 21159
Section
Section FR01
Size
Size 25
Available
Available 25
Dates Days Time Campus Location Instructor
27 Feb - 17 Apr Friday 9:10am - 11am Adelaide City Campus East Engin and Maths Sciences, 324
8 May - 5 Jun Friday 9:10am - 11am Adelaide City Campus East Engin and Maths Sciences, 324
Class number
Class number 21160
Section
Section PR01
Size
Size 30
Available
Available 30
Dates Days Time Campus Location Instructor
27 Feb - 17 Apr Friday 1:10pm - 2pm Adelaide City Campus East Nexus10, 228
8 May - 5 Jun Friday 1:10pm - 2pm Adelaide City Campus East Nexus10, 228

Prerequisite(s)

  • must have completed STATX290 Statistical Practice

Corequisite(s)

N/A

Antirequisite(s)

N/A

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