The Essential NLP Guide for data scientists (with codes for top 10 common NLP tasks)

Introduction Organizations today deal with huge amount and wide variety of data – calls from customers, their emails, tweets, data from mobile applications and what not. It takes a lot of effort and time to make this data useful. One of the core skills in extracting information from text data is Natural Language Processing (NLP). Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the art and science which helps us extract information from text and use it in our computations and algorithms. Given […]

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A Guide to Building an Intelligent Chatbot for Slack using Dialogflow API

Introduction Breakthroughs in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) have seen a sudden rise in recent times. The amount of text data available to us is enormous, and data scientists are coming up with new and innovative solutions to parse through it and analyse patterns. From writing entire novels to decoding ancient texts, we have seen a variety of applications for NLP. One of the most popular applications is a chatbot. Organizations like Zomato, Starbucks, Lyft, and Spotify are leveraging […]

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10 Powerful Applications of Linear Algebra in Data Science (with Multiple Resources)

Overview Linear algebra powers various and diverse data science algorithms and applications Here, we present 10 such applications where linear algebra will help you become a better data scientist We have categorized these applications into various fields – Basic Machine Learning, Dimensionality Reduction, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision   Introduction If Data Science was Batman, Linear Algebra would be Robin. This faithful sidekick is often ignored. But in reality, it powers major areas of Data Science including the hot […]

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7 Amazing NLP Hack Sessions to Watch out for at DataHack Summit 2019

Picture a world where: Machines are able to have human-level conversations with us Computers understand the context of the conversation without having to be told what the subject is These machines can even write full-blown essays after being given the theme of the topic This isn’t a movie script or a futuristic scenario – this is all happening right now thanks to the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP)! Here’s the incredible rise charted by Google Trends in the last […]

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Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Posts on Chennai Floods using Python

Introduction The best way to learn data science is to do data science. No second thought about it! One of the ways, I do this is continuously look for interesting work done by other community members. Once I understand the project, I do / improve the project on my own. Honestly, I can’t think of a better way to learn data science. As part of my search, I came across a study on sentiment analysis of Chennai Floods on Analytics Vidhya. […]

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A Simple Introduction to Sequence to Sequence Models

Overview In this article, I would give you an overview of sequence to sequence models which became quite popular for different tasks like machine translation, video captioning, image captioning, question answering, etc. Prerequisites: The reader should already be familiar with neural networks and, in particular, recurrent neural networks (RNNs). In addition, knowledge of LSTM or GRU models is preferable. If you are not familiar with LSTM I would prefer you to read LSTM- Long Short-Term Memory.

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A Quick History of Neural Networks

This article is part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Neural networks are ubiquitous right now. Organizations are splurging money on hardware and talent to ensure they can build the most complex neural networks and bring out the best deep learning solutions. Although Deep Learning is a fairly old subset of machine learning, it didn’t get its due recognition until the early 2010s. Today, it has taken the world by storm and captured public attention in a way that very […]

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Time Series in Excel! Learn Exponential Smoothing Models for Time Series Forecasting in Excel

Overview Excel is the perfect fit for building your time series forecasting models We’ll discuss exponential smoothing models for time series forecasting, including the math behind them We’ll also implement these exponential smoothing models in MS Excel   Introduction Time series in Excel – just seems like a natural fit, right? We see and design line charts in Excel all the time – from sales forecasts to revenue reviews – it all fits into how we think about using Excel […]

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