November 18, 2020 Python

Guide to Parsing HTML with BeautifulSoup in Python

Introduction Web scraping is programmatically collecting information from various websites. While there are many libraries and frameworks in various languages that can extract web data, Python has long been a popular choice because of its plethora of options for web scraping. This article will give you a crash course on web scraping in Python with Beautiful Soup – a popular Python library for parsing HTML and XML. Ethical Web Scraping Web scraping is ubiquitous and gives us data as we […]

November 15, 2020 Python

How to Plot Inline and With Qt – Matplotlib with IPython/Jupyter Notebooks

Introduction There are a number of different data visualization libraries for Python. Out of all of the libraries, however, Matplotlib is easily the most popular and widely used one. With Matplotlib you can create both simple and complex visualizations. Jupyter notebooks are one of the most popular methods of sharing data science and data analysis projects, code, and visualization. Although you may know how to visualize data with Matplotlib, you may not know how to use Matplotlib in a Jupyter […]

November 15, 2020 Python

How to Concatenate Two Lists in Python

Introduction List concatenation the act of creating a single list from multiple smaller lists by daisy chaining them together. There are many ways of concatenating lists in Python. Specifically, in this article, we’ll be going over how to concatenate two lists in Python using the plus operator, unpack operator, multiply operator, manual for loop concatenation, the itertools.chain() function and the inbuilt list method extend(). In all the code snippets below, we’ll make use of the following lists: list_a = [1, […]

November 12, 2020 Python

How to Deploy a Django Application to Heroku with Git CLI

Introduction Heroku is a cloud platform that provides hosting services. It supports several programming languages including PHP, Node.js, and Python. It is Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) which allows you to manage website applications while it takes care of your servers, networks, storage and other cloud components. In this article, we’ll take a look at how to deploy a Django application to Heroku, using Git. You can follow the same steps, and deploy the application from GitHub, if it’s hosted there. Prerequisites Below […]

November 10, 2020 Classification, Intermediate, Machine Learning, NLP, Python, Supervised, Technique, Text, Unstructured Data Leave a comment

Ultimate Guide to Understand and Implement Natural Language Processing (with codes in Python)

Overview Complete guide on natural language processing (NLP) in Python Learn various techniques for implementing NLP including parsing & text processing Understand how to use NLP for text feature engineering Introduction According to industry estimates, only 21% of the available data is present in structured form. Data is being generated as we speak, as we tweet, as we send messages on Whatsapp and in various other activities. Majority of this data exists in the textual form, which is highly unstructured […]

November 10, 2020 Advanced, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, NLP, Project, Python, Sequence Modeling, Supervised, Text, Unstructured Data Leave a comment

How to create a poet / writer using Deep Learning (Text Generation using Python)?

Introduction From short stories to writing 50,000 word novels, machines are churning out words like never before. There are tons of examples available on the web where developers have used machine learning to write pieces of text, and the results range from the absurd to delightfully funny. Thanks to major advancements in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), machines are able to understand the context and spin up tales all by themselves. […]

November 10, 2020 Classification, Intermediate, Machine Learning, NLP, Python, R, Supervised, Technique, Text, Unstructured Data Leave a comment

Complete tutorial on Text Classification using Conditional Random Fields Model (in Python)

Introduction The amount of text data being generated in the world is staggering. Google processes more than 40,000 searches EVERY second! According to a Forbes report, every single minute we send 16 million text messages and post 510,00 comments on Facebook. For a layman, it is difficult to even grasp the sheer magnitude of data out there? News sites and other online media alone generate tons of text content on an hourly basis. Analyzing patterns in that data can become […]

November 10, 2020 Libraries, NLP, Programming, Python, PyTorch, Sequence Modeling, Supervised, Technique, Text, Unstructured Data Leave a comment

Introduction to PyTorch-Transformers: An Incredible Library for State-of-the-Art NLP (with Python code)

Overview We look at the latest state-of-the-art NLP library in this article called PyTorch-Transformers We will also implement PyTorch-Transformers in Python using popular NLP models like Google’s BERT and OpenAI’s GPT-2! This has the potential to revolutionize the landscape of NLP as we know it Introduction “NLP’s ImageNet moment has arrived.” – Sebastian Ruder Imagine having the power to build the Natural Language Processing (NLP) model that powers Google Translate. What if I told you this can be done […]

November 10, 2020 Intermediate, Libraries, NLP, Python, Technique, Text Leave a comment

3 Important NLP Libraries for Indian Languages You Should Try Out Today!

Overview Ever wondered how to use NLP models in Indian languages? This article is all about breaking boundaries and exploring 3 amazing libraries for Indian Languages We will implement plenty of NLP tasks in Python using these 3 libraries and work with Indian languages Introduction Language is a wonderful tool of communication – its powered the human race for centuries and continues to be at the heart of our culture. The sheer amount of languages in the world dwarf […]

November 9, 2020 Python

Generating Command-Line Interfaces (CLI) with Fire in Python

Introduction A Command-line interface (CLI) is a way to interact with computers using textual commands. A lot of tools that don’t require GUIs are written as CLI tools/utilities. Although Python has the built-in argparse module, other libraries with similar functionality do exist. These libraries can help us in writing CLI scripts, providing services like parsing options and flags to much more advanced CLI functionality. This article discusses the Python Fire library, written by Google Inc., a useful tool to create […]

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