Overview  Text analysis, also known as, “text mining” is a computational method or technique used to extract large amounts of ‘unstructured’ data from documents and texts in their online forms (Reardon,2020). Many people who research using text analysis tools, use it to collect specific information from the texts they are

Bias, is a significant and ubiquitous influence on data collection, reflecting the zeitgeist, beliefs, social taboos and sentiment of the archivists through the ages. It’s ultimately unavoidable that political and social prejudices impact the way we store and collect data. It is therefore not surprising that data collection in the West has vestigial ties