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

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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

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Approx. 29 hours to complete

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Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, English, Spanish

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 MiningPython ProgrammingNatural Language Processing

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Course 4 of 5 in the

Applied Data Science with Python Specialization

Intermediate Level

Approx. 29 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, English, Spanish

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V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran

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University of Michigan

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

9 hours to complete

Module 1: Working with Text in Python

9 hours to complete

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

5 videos

Introduction to Text Mining3m

Handling Text in Python18m

Regular Expressions16m

Demonstration: Regex with Pandas and Named Groups5m

Internationalization and Issues with Non-ASCII Characters12m

4 readings

Course Syllabus10m

Help us learn more about you!!10m

Notice for Auditing Learners: Assignment Submission10m

Resources: Common issues with free text10m

2 practice exercises

Practice Quiz30m

Module 1 Quiz30m

Week

Week 2

7 hours to complete

Module 2: Basic Natural Language Processing

7 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 36 min)

Week

Week 3

7 hours to complete

Module 3: Classification of Text

7 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 94 min)

Week

Week 4

6 hours to complete

Module 4: Topic Modeling

6 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 RKJul 19, 2019

Course is great except for the auto grader issues. Please look into the issue. I would like to take this opportunity and thank Prof V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran and all those who helped me to complete it.

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 CCAug 26, 2017

Quite challenging but also quite a sense of accomplishment when you finish the course. I learned a lot and think this was the course I preferred of the entire specialization. I highly recommend it!

by LCFeb 16, 2018

Love the focus on conceptual text processing and practical guides to implementation in python, but the assignment grader was extremely specific for no reason, especially the Week3 assignment.

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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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