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NOTE: THIS WAS DONE USING PYTHON 2.7. PLEASE, REFER TO UPDATED POST HERE. A lot of times we need to dig through hundreds of lines of text. Maybe we are digging through research journals or we need to go through large amounts of text. A great technique to speed up this process is by using…
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One of the most tedious things when working with data has to be processing times. Sometimes your data is not big enough and this is never an issue. Other times, your data is so big that you sit… and wait… until a Pandas process or whatever other process you’re trying to run finishes running. 2…
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Instead of a lengthy tutorial, I hope this post serves as a quick reference for those who work with text data on almost a daily basis. Come back to this post for updates as I will be posting them here as I develop them! Strip Accents: On many occasions, I have had to work with…
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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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