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Text Analytics with Python

Course Description

The Text Analytics with Python course is a free online course that teaches the core techniques of text analytics alongside the cognitive science that makes it possible.

Course Details

• Instructor: Dr. Jonathan Dunn
• Start date: Open for enrolment
• Price: Free (optional upgrade cost available to include graded assignments and completion certificate)

Course Content

The course covers the practical and scientific aspects of text analytics, including:

• Creating pipelines for text classification and text similarity using machine learning
• Understanding language computationally and the limits of a computational approach to language
• Exploring real-world case studies using pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, tensorflow, matplotlib, seaborn, gensim, and spacy within jupyter notebooks

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