An introductory DataCamp course on text mining with the bag-of-words approach, covering how to turn raw text into word-count variables that can be used in models.

A commenter recommends it as a practical starting point for learning how to convert words into variables for modeling when classifying text.

What commenters said (1)

1. Recommendschasedehan2017in “Ask HN: Machine learning to classify tweets into topics – Where to start?”

   JS and PHP won't get you anywhere - you will need to use something else like R or python to start looking at it.

   Check out this course: https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-text-mining-bag-of...

   This will help you figure out how to convert those words into variables which can be used for modeling.

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