Overview of Orange Data Mining
Orange Data Mining is an open-source data analysis and visualization suite that lets you build workflows with widgets. It is especially helpful for text analysis when you want to work without writing much code.
Why Use Orange?
- its graphical interface is intuitive and accessible;
- the Text add-on makes it possible to explore corpora without advanced programming;
- the environment offers many useful visualizations for exploration;
- workflows can be saved, reused, and adapted.
For Text Analysis
With the Text add-on, Orange supports:
- loading corpora;
- text preprocessing;
- bag-of-words representation;
- sentiment analysis;
- topic modeling;
- several visualizations for comparing and interpreting results.
Getting Started
After installing Orange, add the Text extension through Options > Add-ons, then restart the application. You will then be able to explore preprocessing, modeling, and visualization widgets in a single environment.