Knowledge Graph – A Powerful Data Science Technique to Mine Information from Text (with Python code)
Overview
- Knowledge graphs are one of the most fascinating concepts in data science
- Learn how to build a knowledge graph to mine information from Wikipedia pages
- You will be working hands-on in Python to build a knowledge graph using the popular spaCy library
Introduction
Lionel Messi needs no introduction. Even folks who don’t follow football have heard about the brilliance of one of the greatest players to have graced the sport. Here’s his Wikipedia page:
Quite a lot of information there! We have text, tons of hyperlinks, and even an audio clip. That’s a lot of relevant and potentially useful information on a single page. The possibilities of putting this into a use case are endless.
However, there is a slight problem. This is not an ideal source of data to feed to our machines. Not in its current form anyway.
Can we find a way to make this text data readable