Learn Data Science by Doing Kaggle Competitions: Natural Language Processing

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We meet every two weeks to learn more about data science by discussing Kaggle competitions (https://www.kaggle.com). If you want to get better at data wrangling, feature engineering, model selection or just want to have fun solving non-trivial data science problems, this is the right group to join!

This time we will talk about the Bag of Words Meets Bags of Popcorn (https://www.kaggle.com/c/word2vec-nlp-tutorial) tutorial competition. This is a good chance to learn something about natural language processing (NLP). And have an excuse to try Parsey McParseface (http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2016/05/announcing-syntaxnet-worlds-most.html).

Please try to look at the competition and its tutorials before the meetup. It's OK if you don't understand it all. The meetup is for questions and discussion.

Update: Arman Akbarian says, "I can go through the tutorial and some other tools in NLP and hopefully also get to play with Google's new parser and have some examples for that too." Thanks, Arman! Should make for a really interesting meeting.