December 2, 2020 Beginner, Data Exploration, E-Commerce, NLP, Python, Technique, Text Leave a comment

A Beginner’s Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) on Text Data (Amazon Case Study)

The Importance of Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) There are no shortcuts in a machine learning project lifecycle. We can’t simply skip to the model building stage after gathering the data. We need to plan our approach in a structured manner and the exploratory data analytics (EDA) stage plays a huge part in that. I can say this with the benefit of hindsight having personally gone through this situation plenty of times. In my early days in this field, I couldn’t […]

October 17, 2020 Entertainment, Graphs & Networks, Intermediate, NLP, Project, Python, Technique, Text, Unstructured Data Leave a comment

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 […]

October 17, 2020 Beginner, NLP, Technique, Text, Unstructured Data Leave a comment

Quick Introduction to Bag-of-Words (BoW) and TF-IDF for Creating Features from Text

The Challenge of Making Machines Understand Text “Language is a wonderful medium of communication” You and I would have understood that sentence in a fraction of a second. But machines simply cannot process text data in raw form. They need us to break down the text into a numerical format that’s easily readable by the machine (the idea behind Natural Language Processing!). This is where the concepts of Bag-of-Words (BoW) and TF-IDF come into play. Both BoW and TF-IDF are […]