This article is published at 9:55am EST, 5 minutes before the start of the 2022 World Cup Final between Argentina and France. This is the umpteenth installment in my exploration of whether or not Twitter sentiment is good at predicting anything. Last year, I used it on NFL games and Starbucks stock prices. The results?Continue reading “Twitter, NLP, and the 2022 World Cup”
Category Archives: The Text API
Using NLP to Analyze a YouTube Lecture Series – Part 2
In part one of Using NLP to Analyze a YouTube Lecture Series we asynchronously sent API requests to use NLP on downloaded YouTube Transcripts. As part of getting our analyzed data, we had to split up the text data to get all the requests due to internet speed limits. In this post, we’ll combine allContinue reading “Using NLP to Analyze a YouTube Lecture Series – Part 2”
Using NLP to Analyze a YouTube Lecture Series – Part 1
YouTube is one of the best places to learn online today. What if you are just curious what the main points of a series is though? We can use natural language processing to analyze a YouTube series. This way we can gain some insight into what the series is about and decide if we wantContinue reading “Using NLP to Analyze a YouTube Lecture Series – Part 1”
Text Sentiment Analysis and How to Do it
Sentiment analysis is an example of applied Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this context, “sentiment” is almost interchangeable with text polarity. Text polarity is a measure from -1 to 1 of the sentiment of the text. The dictionary definition of sentiment is actually “one’s view or attitude towards something”, so this could include emotions fromContinue reading “Text Sentiment Analysis and How to Do it”
What AI Keyword Extraction Is and How to Do It
Keyword extraction is an example of applied Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP is the subfield of AI concerned with analyzing, understanding, and generating language. Keyword extraction is one of the basic techniques in NLP. The first step to keyword extraction is tokenization. After tokenizing a text, it’s a simple step to look through for aContinue reading “What AI Keyword Extraction Is and How to Do It”
Using AI to Analyze COVID Headlines Over Time
We’re coming up on the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in America. There’s been a bunch of different variants, the CDC has shifted its stance at least 20 times, and the mask and vaccine protests rage on. Given all of this, I thought it would be interesting to analyze what the news has beenContinue reading “Using AI to Analyze COVID Headlines Over Time”
Using NLP to Get Insights from Twitter
I’m interested in analyzing the Tweets of a bunch of famous people so I can learn from them. I’ve built a program that will do this by pulling a list of recent tweets and doing some NLP on them. In this post we’re going to go over: Get all the Text for a Search TermContinue reading “Using NLP to Get Insights from Twitter”
How to Build an AI Content Moderation System
The media machine feeds on our attention. It constantly pokes and prods and finds ways to provoke, shock, or entice. At the same time, we’re no less sensitive to graphic content than we were before. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a force for good or a force for evil. It’s important to remember, it’s notContinue reading “How to Build an AI Content Moderation System”
Create Your Own AI Content Moderator – Part 3
As content on the web increases, content moderation becomes more and more important to protect sensitive groups such as children and people who have suffered from trauma. We’re going to learn how to create your own AI content moderator using Python, Selenium, Beautiful Soup 4, and The Text API. Our AI content moderator will beContinue reading “Create Your Own AI Content Moderator – Part 3”
Create Your Own AI Content Moderator – Part 2
As content on the web increases, content moderation becomes more and more important to protect sensitive groups such as children and people who have suffered from trauma. We’re going to learn how to create your own AI content moderator using Python, Selenium, Beautiful Soup 4, and The Text API. Our AI content moderator will beContinue reading “Create Your Own AI Content Moderator – Part 2”