Introduction to Natural Language Processing | Online

About this class

This course introduces the area of data science focused on text data, Natural Language Processing. Using a practical approach, students will get hands on experience working with and analyzing text. It is recommended participants have some Python knowledge.

Takeaways

• Discover what the field of data science encompasses and the key traits of a successful data scientist
• An introduction to a standard workflow for anyone conducting data analysis
• Understand the different types of data and their use cases
• Run through a data science case study
• Tools and resources to help you find answers to questions that may come up in future analyses
• Have an understanding of how to use the Natural Language Tool Kit.
• Be able to load and manipulate your own text data.
• Know how to formulate solutions to text based problems.
• Know when it is appropriate to apply solutions such as sentiment analysis and classification techniques.

Prereqs & Preparation

It is recommended participants have some Python knowledge.