A rant on sacrificing performance for productivity. (more…)

This talk will introduce the area of NLP (Natural Language Processing) and a basic introduction of its principles. It will use Python and some of its fundamental NLP packages, such as NLTK, to illustrate examples and topics, demonstrating how to get start... (more…)

Each day, over 95 million photos and videos are shared on Instagram. The unstoppable photo-centric social media platform has over 600 million registered users — 400 million of whom are active every day. Talk about operating at scale: Instagram kills it at... (more…)

This HOWTO discusses Python support for Unicode, and explains various problems that people commonly encounter when trying to work with Unicode. (more…)

In this post, we’ll look at reviews from the Yelp Dataset Challenge. We’ll train a machine learning system to predict … (more…)