First up in this episode: a crash course in natural language processing, and important steps if you want to use machine learning techniques on text data. Then we'll take that NLP know-how and talk about a really cool analysis of State of the Union text, which analyzes the topics and word choices of every President from Washington to Obama.

Relevant link:

https://civisanalytics.com/blog/data-science/2016/01/15/data-science-on-state-of-the-union-addresses/