This course is part of the Applied Data Science with Python Specialization

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Applied Data Science with Python SpecializationUniversity of Michigan

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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.

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Applied Data Science with Python Specialization

Intermediate Level

Approx. 25 hours to complete

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What you will learn

Understand how text is handled in Python
Apply basic natural language processing methods
Write code that groups documents by topic
Describe the nltk framework for manipulating text

Skills you will gain

Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
Text Mining
Python Programming
Natural Language Processing

Flexible deadlines

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Course 4 of 5 in the

Applied Data Science with Python Specialization

Intermediate Level

Approx. 25 hours to complete

English

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V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

Week 1

8 hours to complete

Module 1: Working with Text in Python

8 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 56 min), 4 readings, 3 quizzes

Week2

Week 2

6 hours to complete

Module 2: Basic Natural Language Processing

6 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 45 min)

Week3

Week 3

6 hours to complete

Module 3: Classification of Text

6 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 94 min)

Week4

Week 4

5 hours to complete

Module 4: Topic Modeling

5 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 58 min), 3 readings, 3 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM APPLIED TEXT MINING IN PYTHON

by JRDec 4, 2020

Excellent course to get started with text mining and NLP with Python. The course goes over the most essential elements involved with dealing with free text. Definitely worth the time I spent on it.

by CHAug 10, 2018

Passionate instructor and a great primer on how software can infer useful data from text. Gives a preliminary understanding on the algorithms used in scikit learn and nltk.

by TKJun 22, 2020

Everything was awesome, assignment 2 was my favorite in a long while in this specialization series. Week 4 was a little weak, and felt rushed. Overall, I enjoyed this course 4 of the 5.

by CBSep 19, 2017

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

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About the Applied Data Science with Python Specialization

The 5 courses in this University of Michigan specialization introduce learners to data science through the python programming language. This skills-based specialization is intended for learners who have a basic python or programming background, and want to apply statistical, machine learning, information visualization, text analysis, and social network analysis techniques through popular python toolkits such as pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn, nltk, and networkx to gain insight into their data.

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