Jan 31Introduction to testing with Pytest on ColabPytest is a powerful testing tool for Python that can be used to test everything from individual functions and classes to entire applications. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Pytest to write and run tests for your Python code. Why do we need Pytest? Pytest makes it…Python3 min read
Jan 15Text similarity- here’s what I did with it as a teacher/ coder.I have been a teacher of French for a few years now and kind of intuitively know when students are using each other’s homework to submit. Some students are smarter — they do not submit exact replicas of each other’s work, they make a few changes to give some element…Python3 min read
Jan 15Who is the author?Who is the author? I received a message this morning from my neighbour about a random person seen on his home security system checking his front door if it was locked. Alarmed I checked my doors and spread the news around on our neighbourhood Whatsapp group. A couple of minutes…NLP4 min read
Feb 21, 2021Handling profanity in text data with Python.Dealing with raw unstructured text data is a bit of a challenge. Conversational text as data presents itself with stray characters, punctuation, spellings, abbreviations, emojis etc to name a few. The presence of profanity in text data is the main focus of this article — ways to handle profanity in…NLP5 min read
Feb 20, 2021Working with unstructured text data containing emojis using Python — Part 3Pre-process raw tweets for information extraction. This article aims at demonstrating why cleantext may be particularly useful in addressing emojis and handling ASCII/ unicodes & HTML codes that can be often overlooked or can be tedious in text preprocessing. The steps detailed in the colab notebook for the previous article Working with unstructured text data using…Nlp Libraries Python3 min read
Feb 17, 2021Working with unstructured text data using Python — Part 2Pre-process raw tweets for information extraction. Tweets in their raw unstructured form are far from ready for any text mining or NLP project ideas. Here’s a walkthrough of a few pre-processing steps I’d normally take while working with tweet data. …Twitter Data3 min read
Feb 16, 2021Working with unstructured text data- Part 1Retrieve tweets by search term using Twitter API in Python. The main focus of this article is to expose some of the underlying challenges of working with unstructured data, particularly text data coming from social media channels that has a range of language use, styles, vocabulary etc. The references provided at the end of the article can be used to…Data3 min read
