I have periodically described my experiences with text mining in this blog. Today I want to raise a significant point that has only recently become clear to me. It happened in the wake of my participation in the University of Michigan’s “Beyond Cntrl+F” workshop on February 1st of this year. This made something very apparent: text mining is in many cases only practicable at its intended scale at institutions commanding the financial resources necessary to 1) subscribe to these products, and 2) go on to pay the additional fee.
