Analytics and Tech Mining for Engineering Managers

This book offers practical tools in Python to students of innovation as well as competitive intelligence professionals to track new developments in science technology and innovation. The book will appeal to both-tech-mining and data science audiences. For tech-mining audiences Python presents an appealing all-in-one language for managing the tech-mining process. The book is a complement to other introductory books on the Python language providing recipes with which a practitioner can grow a practice of mining text. For data science audiences this book gives a succinct overview over the most useful techniques of text mining. The book also provides relevant domain knowledge from engineering management; so an appropriate context for analysis can be created. This is the first book of a two-book series. This first book discusses the mining of text while the second one describes the analysis of text. This book describes how to extract actionable intelligence from a variety of sources including scientific articles patents pdfs and web pages. There is a variety of tools available within Python for mining text. In particular we discuss the use of pandas BeautifulSoup and pdfminer.