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”

Ask AI: What Does US News Say About Top Colleges? Part 3

This is a follow up to the Ask NLP projects on What Does US News Say About Top Colleges. Top Colleges Part 1 was a naive analysis without data cleaning where we pulled the most positive and most negative sentences about each college and found tons of repeat data. In Top Colleges Part 2, weContinue reading “Ask AI: What Does US News Say About Top Colleges? Part 3”

AI Summaries of the Top 10 Schools in America

These are the summaries of the Top 10 schools in America as summarized by The Text API, the most comprehensive sentiment analysis model. This is part of a series on the Top Colleges in the US. Part 1 is a naïve analysis. Part 2 is a cleaned data analysis. Finally, part 3 shows you howContinue reading “AI Summaries of the Top 10 Schools in America”

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?”

The Best Way to do Named Entity Recognition (NER)

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a common Natural Language Processing technique. It’s so often used that it comes in the basic pipeline for spaCy. NER can help us quickly parse out a document for all the named entities of many different types. For example, if we’re reading an article, we can use named entity recognitionContinue reading “The Best Way to do Named Entity Recognition (NER)”