the important is still something human is better at than any machine luckilydata scientists can apply specific text mining and text analytics techniques to find the relevant information in heaps of text that would otherwise take them centuries to read themselves text mining or text analytics is discipline that combines language science and computer science with statistical and machine learning techniques text mining is used for analyzing texts and turning them into more structured form then it takes this structured form and tries to derive insights from it when analyzing crime from police reportsfor exampletext mining helps you recognize personsplacesand types of crimes from the reports then this new structure is used to gain insight into the evolution of crimes see figure police reports of june danny stole watch in chelsea market person punched mexi liin the face in orlando during the chelsea soccer gamemy car was stolen add structure crime person place victim date danny chelsea marketnew york theft unknown th june unknown orlando violence xi li th june unknown chelsealondon theft bart smith th june analyze and visualize evolution of the theft in chelsea market theft index months figure in text analytics(usuallythe first challenge is to structure the input textthen it can be thoroughly analyzed