From September 26 to 29, data2day – a conference for Big Data, Data Science and Machine Learning – will take place in Heidelberg. Stephanie Fischer and Christian Winkler from mgm will lead a full-day workshop on Tuesday, 26th September from 9 a. m. about the analysis and classification of large amounts of text data (Analyse und Klassifikation großer Mengen von Textdaten). Participants will learn how to apply different classification methods and which metrics can be used to assess the quality of classification projects. SQlite, Topic Modeling, Apache Solr, visualization tools and Python (Scikit and NLTK) are used.