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Okay, I have a confession to make… I don’t get why people like avocados so much. They’re ‘okay’ at best. I grew up in the Caribbean and avocados were plentiful, in fact, we had an avocado tree in our backyard, twice the size of those i see in stores here, but…I was just never an…
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I’ve been meaning to dig into this data set for a while. There’s just so many text analytics we can learn from it and just learn how we can be better as a society when we read fake news. This data set came from Kaggle.com so if you will follow along go ahead and download…
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So, recently, I was asked to changed my password for a service I am subscribed to. And obviously, it couldn’t be something I’ve used before. I tried changing one character, nope it didn’t work. Sigh…listen, I am just very lazy, okay? Changing my password annoys just as much as going grocery shopping. AIN’T NOBODY GOT…
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This is the second part of this text mining series. For part I click here. In this post, we’ll go over unstructured approaches to look at our text data. A good way to learn about what’s inside our text data is to find topics or themes. In this example we will use a Latent Dirichlet…
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I am not sure what is it about text data that I find so appealing, but it is by far one of my favorite fields of machine learning. If I hadn’t studied astrophysics I would have probably done something in linguistics. Ever since I can recall, I’ve been interested in languages, my parents both taught…
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Please, tell me I am not the only who who acts this way, Step 1: Code is running on the first try. I am a genius. Step 2: Question everything. HOW did it run on the first try? Step 3: Realize there is a bug. Freak out. Step 4: Question your career choices. Step 5:…
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A while ago I was tasked with packaging up a bunch of my functions and at the time I was like no, no, I ain’t doing that, I ain’t spending hours figuring it out, I have to keep going. 6 months later I needed to do a similar analysis and I was fucked because I…
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