A simple package designed to be used for demonstrating basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) feature engineering in Python.

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Practice Dataset

Stack Exchange Data Dump

Text Encoding

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky

Packages

• chardet - Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3
• cchardet - Universal encoding detector. This library is faster than chardet
• ftfy - fixes text for you
• unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text

Natural Language Processing

Care and Feeding of Topic Models: Problems, Diagnostics, and Improvementes

Functional Programing in Python

Functional programming in Python Examine the functional aspects of Python: which options work well and which ones you should avoid By David Mertz

Packages

• toolz - Toolz provides a set of utility functions for iterators, functions, and dictionaries.
• functools - Higher-order functions and operations on callable objects.
• itertools - Functions creating iterators for efficient looping.