November 10, 2020 Advanced, NLP, Sports, Technique, Text, Unsupervised, Use Cases Leave a comment

Text Mining Simplified – IPL 2020 Tweet Analysis with R

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Text mining utilizes different AI technologies to automatically process data and generate valuable insights, enabling companies to make data-driven decisions. Text mining identifies facts, relationships, and assertions that would otherwise remain buried in the mass of textual big data. Once extracted, this information is converted into a structured form that can be further analyzed, or presented directly using clustered HTML tables, mind maps, charts, etc. Advantages of […]

November 9, 2020 Business Analytics, Data Mining, Intermediate, Libraries, NLP, Programming, Python, Text, Unstructured Data Leave a comment

Text Mining hack: Subject Extraction made easy using Google API

Let’s do a simple exercise. You need to identify the subject and the sentiment in following sentences: Google is the best resource for any kind of information. I came across a fabulous knowledge portal – Analytics Vidhya Messi played well but Argentina still lost the match Opera is not the best browser Yes, like UAE will win the Cricket World Cup. Was this exercise simple? Even if this looks like a simple exercise, now imagine creating an algorithm to do this? How does that […]

November 4, 2020 Big data, Business Analytics, Data Exploration, Intermediate, NLP, Project, R, Sports, Text, Unstructured Data Leave a comment

Who is the world cheering for? 2014 FIFA WC winner predicted using Twitter feed (in R)

Sports are filled with emotions! Cheering of audience, reactions to events on various media channels are some of the factors, which make a huge impact on the mind of the players. If people support you, your chances to win are greatly enhanced. Live example of this fact, are the statistics of Indian cricket team playing in India and abroad. The win rate of Indian cricket team in India is approximately twice the win rate abroad. Football is again a game driven largely by emotions. […]

September 21, 2020 Python Leave a comment

Accessing the Twitter API with Python

Introduction One thing that Python developers enjoy is surely the huge number of resources developed by its big community. Python-built application programming interfaces (APIs) are a common thing for web sites. It’s hard to imagine that any popular web service will not have created a Python API library to facilitate the access to its services. A few ideas of such APIs for some of the most popular web services could be found here. In fact, “Python wrapper” is a more […]