November 10, 2020 Intermediate, NLP, Podcast Leave a comment

DataHack Radio #21: Detecting Fake News using Machine Learning with Mike Tamir, Ph.D.

Introduction Fake news is one of the biggest scourges in our digitally connected world. That is no exaggeration. It is no longer limited to little squabbles – fake news spreads like wildfire and is impacting millions of people every day. How do you deal with such a sensitive issue? Millions of articles are being churned out every day on the internet – how do you tell real from fake? It’s not as easy as turning to a simple fact checker. […]

October 31, 2020 Intermediate, NLP, Podcast Leave a comment

DataHack Radio #23: Ines Montani and Matthew Honnibal – The Brains behind spaCy

https://soundcloud.com/datahack-radio/ines-montani-matthew-honnibal-the-brains-behind-spacy Introduction What would you do if you had the chance to pick the brains behind one of the most popular Natural Language Processing (NLP) libraries of our era? A library that has helped usher in the current boom in NLP applications and nurtured tons of NLP scientists? Well – you invite the creators on our popular DataHack Radio podcast and let them do the talking! We are delighted to welcome Ines Montani and Matt Honnibal, the developers of spaCy […]

October 29, 2020 Intermediate, NLP, Podcast, Research & Technology Leave a comment

DataHack Radio #12: Exploring the Nuts and Bolts of Natural Language Processing with Sebastian Ruder

https://soundcloud.com/datahack-radio/episode-12-sebastian-ruder Introduction There’s text everywhere around us, from digital sources like social media to physical objects like books and print media. The amount of text data being generated every day is mind boggling and yet we’re not even close to harnessing the full power of natural language processing. I see a ton of aspiring data scientists interested in this field, but they often turn away daunted by the challenges NLP presents. It’s such a niche line of work, and we […]

October 17, 2020 Intermediate, NLP, Podcast Leave a comment

DataHack Radio #24: Exploring and Designing Chatbots with RASA’s Justina Petraitytė

Introduction Chatbots are the most common application of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Organizations are scrambling to integrate chatbots into their daily functions to enhance and personalize our experience. As a data science professional, I’m always curious about how these chatbots are built. Rasa is one such open source framework that we can leverage to build our own chatbots. So we are delighted to have Rasa’s data scientist and Head of Developer Relations, Justina Petraitytė, on our DataHack Radio podcast! Justina […]