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When working with a large dataset, the challenge isn't just the size of it. Often, as was the case with the Panama Papers, you might end up working with a mixture of structured and unstructured data – databases, documents, emails, and other formats.
Journalists who need to search through text can do so more efficiently using textual analytics methods.
This article by Forbes contributor Meta S. Brown explains the basics of the process, outlining the three core operations needed to turn text into conventional data.
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