This is a follow up post to Ask NLP: What Does US News Say About Top Colleges? Part 1. In the last article we discovered that each page about the top 10 colleges ranked by US News had a LOT of repeat text. In order to deal with this, we’ll clean the data first. HowContinue reading “Ask NLP: What Does US News Say About Top Colleges? Part 2”
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Ask NLP: What Does US News Say About Top Colleges? Part 1
I don’t know if any of y’all checked out the US News Top Colleges rankings when you were in high school looking to apply for colleges, but I did. Back then the site wasn’t trashed by ads like it is now, so it was actually readable. Now it’s not. Thankfully, we have technology and weContinue reading “Ask NLP: What Does US News Say About Top Colleges? Part 1”
What is an API and How do I use it?
APIs are one of the biggest buzzwords around the web in 2021. In September, the founder of RapidAPI made a guest post on Forbes about Why Almost Every Company is an API Company now. According to Allied Market Research, the Cloud API space is expected to reach a market cap of almost $1.8 BILLION byContinue reading “What is an API and How do I use it?”
How to Automatically Analyze Documents with Python
Analyzing a stack of documents is a pain. Why do it yourself when you can automate it? In this post we’ll go over how you can automatically analyze documents with Python. We’ll be doing this with the help of The Text API, the best comprehensive sentiment analysis web API. First, let’s go over what goesContinue reading “How to Automatically Analyze Documents with Python”
Ask NLP: What’s Going On in the News? (October 2021)
If you’ve been following along you already know that we’ve been doing a LOT of exploration of the news, especially the New York Times. This is because the New York Times provides easy access to their news headlines, I’m curious about what’s going on in the news since I don’t actually read it, and I’mContinue reading “Ask NLP: What’s Going On in the News? (October 2021)”
Ask AI: Has COVID Made NY Times Headlines More Negative?
Have New York Times News Headlines gotten more negative since the beginning of COVID? Let’s use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to find out. I think the answer should be yes, the media is designed to capture attention by inspiring fear in us. However, I’m also a big fan of the New York Times, so I holdContinue reading “Ask AI: Has COVID Made NY Times Headlines More Negative?”
Natural Language Processing: What is Text Polarity?
Natural Language Processing (NLP) and all of its applications will be huge in the 2020s. A lot of my blogging is about text processing and all the things that go with it such as Named Entity Recognition and Part of Speech Tagging. Text polarity is a basic text processing technique that gives us insight intoContinue reading “Natural Language Processing: What is Text Polarity?”
Do More Polarizing YouTube Titles Get More Views?
Accompanying YouTube Video: We’re all familiar with the concept of clickbait now, so I was curious if more polarizing YouTube titles got more views. Just like the last couple of articles involving YouTube, we’ll be using Selenium, BeautifulSoup, and The Text API. Just like when we found The Most Common Phrases on the Front PageContinue reading “Do More Polarizing YouTube Titles Get More Views?”
What Are The Most Common Phrases on YouTube’s Front Page?
Accompanying YouTube video: Have you ever wondered how to make the front page of YouTube? I certainly have, so I used the best sentiment analysis API out there, The Text API, in combination with Selenium and Beautiful Soup to find out what the most common phrases in the titles on YouTube’s front page are. We’reContinue reading “What Are The Most Common Phrases on YouTube’s Front Page?”
How Many Views Per Day do Front Page YouTube Videos Get?
YouTube is the celebrity maker of our generation. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty curious as to how many views per day a YouTube video on the front page gets. Let’s take a look at the videos on YouTube’s front page and see how many views per day each of these videos get.Continue reading “How Many Views Per Day do Front Page YouTube Videos Get?”