About this course: This course will introduce the learner to text mining and text manipulation basics. The course begins with an understanding of how text is handled by python, the structure of text both to the machine and to humans, and an overview of the nltk framework for manipulating text. The second week focuses on common manipulation needs, including regular expressions (searching for text), cleaning text, and preparing text for use by machine learning processes. The third week will apply basic natural language processing methods to text, and demonstrate how text classification is accomplished. The final week will explore more advanced methods for detecting the topics in documents and grouping them by similarity (topic modelling). This course should be taken after: Introduction to Data Science in Python, Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation in Python, and Applied Machine Learning in Python.
Who is this class for: This course is part of “Applied Data Science with Python“ and is intended for learners who have basic python or programming background, and want to apply statistics, machine learning, information visualization, social network analysis, and text analysis techniques to gain new insight into data. Only minimal statistics background is expected, and the first course contains a refresh of these basic concepts. There are no geographic restrictions. Learners with a formal training in Computer Science but without formal training in data science will still find the skills they acquire in these courses valuable in their studies and careers.
Taught by: V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran, Assistant Professor
School of Information
| Basic Info | Course 4 of 5 in the Applied Data Science with Python Specialization |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Reading: Course Syllabus
- Reading: Help us learn more about you!
- Video: Introduction to Text Mining
- Video: Handling Text in Python
- Notebook: Working with Text
- Video: Regular Expressions
- Notebook: Regex with Pandas and Named Groups
- Video: Demonstration: Regex with Pandas and Named Groups
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz
- Video: Internationalization and Issues with Non-ASCII Characters
- Discussion Prompt: Introduce Yourself
- Reading: Resources: Common issues with free text
- Notebook: Assignment 1
- Video: Basic Natural Language Processing
- Notebook: Module 2 (Python 3)
- Video: Basic NLP tasks with NLTK
- Video: Advanced NLP tasks with NLTK
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz
- Discussion Prompt: Finding your own prepositional phrase attachment
- Notebook: Assignment 2
- Video: Text Classification
- Video: Identifying Features from Text
- Video: Naive Bayes Classifiers
- Video: Naive Bayes Variations
- Video: Support Vector Machines
- Video: Learning Text Classifiers in Python
- Notebook: Case Study - Sentiment Analysis
- Video: Demonstration: Case Study - Sentiment Analysis
- Notebook: Assignment 3
- Video: Semantic Text Similarity
- Video: Topic Modeling
- Video: Generative Models and LDA
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz
- Video: Information Extraction
- Reading: Additional Resources & Readings
- Notebook: Assignment 4
- Reading: Post-Course Survey
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Excellent course! Video lectures are high quality, with realistic problems and applications. Exercises are reasonably challenging, and all quite fun to do! Strongly recommend this course
A good course which introduces you to the basics of text processing and text mining in python and exposes you to tools such as regex, nltk and gensim. While the lectures and assignments do promote this learning, a lot of the criticism that is directed at the course is due to the auto-grader issues. You can easily side-step a lot of these problems by going through the forums. However, I do think that the course could have been better planned and executed, even IF the only purpose is applied text mining for e.g., better context and some exposure to theory or at least pointers to where more material could be found for self-study would have been helpful. However, I did learn some things from the class giving me a push towards learning more on the subject on my own.
Excellent teaching paradigm.... one of the best i had so far in Coursera
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The course content is very interesting and high quality; however, the video slides include code that is not available in e.g. jupyter notebooks. Also, the assignment markers do not give any useful feedback - more than half of the time spent was usually when 99% of the task was complete but some very minor detail threw the marker off.