A01=Benjamin Bengfort
A01=Rebecca Bilbro
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Author_Benjamin Bengfort
Author_Rebecca Bilbro
Author_Tony Ojeda
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data big data data science data analysis text analysis Python natural language processing machine learning text mining
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- ISBN 9781491963043
- Weight: 666g
- Dimensions: 150 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2018
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From news and speeches to informal chatter on social media, natural language is one of the richest and most underutilized sources of data. Not only does it come in a constant stream, always changing and adapting in context; it also contains information that is not conveyed by traditional data sources. The key to unlocking natural language is through the creative application of text analytics. This practical book presents a data scientist’s approach to building language-aware products with applied machine learning.
You’ll learn robust, repeatable, and scalable techniques for text analysis with Python, including contextual and linguistic feature engineering, vectorization, classification, topic modeling, entity resolution, graph analysis, and visual steering. By the end of the book, you’ll be equipped with practical methods to solve any number of complex real-world problems.
Preprocess and vectorize text into high-dimensional feature representations
Perform document classification and topic modeling
Steer the model selection process with visual diagnostics
Extract key phrases, named entities, and graph structures to reason about data in text
Build a dialog framework to enable chatbots and language-driven interaction
Use Spark to scale processing power and neural networks to scale model complexity
Benjamin Bengfort is a Data Scientist who lives inside the beltway but ignores politics (the normal business of DC) favoring technology instead. He is currently working to finish his PhD at the University of Maryland where he studies machine learning and distributed computing. His lab does have robots (though this field of study is not one he favors) and, much to his chagrin, they seem to constantly arm said robots with knives and tools; presumably to pursue culinary accolades. Having seen a robot attempt to slice a tomato, Benjamin prefers his own adventures in the kitchen where he specializes in fusion French and Guyanese cuisine as well as BBQ of all types. A professional programmer by trade, a Data Scientist by vocation, Benjamin's writing pursues a diverse range of subjects from Natural Language Processing, to Data Science with Python to analytics with Hadoop and Spark. Tony is the founder of District Data Labs and focuses on applied analytics for business strategy. He has published a book on practical data science, and has experience with hands-on education and data science curricula. Rebecca is a data scientist at the U.S. Department of Commerce Data Service. She specializes in data visualization for machine learning and has given several talks related to improving the model selection process with visualization.
