Text Preprocessing
Text is everywhere, and knowing how to clean it will transform your data science skillset. Many in the industry estimate that 80% of data science is data cleaning, including text preprocessing. Transforming text into usable data requires specialized tools and techniques. This course introduces text cleaning with Python 3 using regular expressions (regex) and NLTK.
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- 1Get a taste of regular expressions (regex), a powerful search pattern language to quickly find the text you’re looking for.
- 2Before most natural language processing tasks, it’s necessary to clean up the text data using text preprocessing techniques.
How you'll master it
Stress-test your knowledge with quizzes that help commit syntax to memory
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