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David is an undergraduate computer science major, freelance developer and open source contributor leveraging Python and Django Framework to create stunning web applications. You can follow him on Twitter, LinkedIN, GitHub or his website.

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  • Cleaning Text Data With Python

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    Machine Learning is super powerful if your data is numeric. What do you do, however, if you want to mine text data to discover hidden insights or to predict the sentiment of the text. What, for example, if you wanted to identify a post on a social media site as cyber bullying. In this article we introduce some methods to clean your text and prepare it for modelling.