Sheffield Data Analytics - Meeting #14 - Lewis Prince

Meetup #14 at Electric Works (in front of the coach station and just up the road from the central train station).

Doors open from 5:30 to give you time to grab a drink and chat to fellow attendees. Talks running from 6 with food provided after the sessions by sponsors Simpsons Associates.

Session 1 - Lewis Prince - Fast and Efficient Text Analysis using Azure's Language Cognitive Service

There is a lot of textual data available to us, from which there can be vast amounts of information and inferences we can extract. The problem is how can you do this, and more importantly how can this be done in a fast and efficient manner. One answer can be via using Azure's Cognitive Service offering 'Language Studio'. Language Studio is one of the Cognitive services available from Azure, it can do tasks for you via such as extracting key words from text, interpreting the sentiment of text, summarising documents and translating text on the fly. I will go into particular detail to explain how we can extract key words from text, Analyse the sentiment of text and mine opinions from text. I will show this on a dataset of customer reviews, from which I will then demo via python how we can submit these customer reviews to the Language Studio APIs to get inferences and more in-depth data back, which I will feed into Power BI to display a dashboard where the data can be broken down by ratings and location etc, to visualise the art of the possible in regard to what can be an end product of analysing text-based data such as reviews.

Close by 8:30 with a chance to continue conversations in the Sheffield Tap by the train station.