February Meetup at ChowNow (Playa Vista)
Details
Our February meetup will be hosted by the awesome folks at ChowNow (http://chownow.com/) with beverages provided by Cars.com/NewCars.com (http://newcars.com)
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Our new feature, Module of the Month, will by presented this month by Laura Rupprecht! (module to be announced)
Main talk: Exploring Natural Language with Python by Karim Amer
The talk for this meetup will be a 2 part (30 min each) live teaching and code session where you can code along if you want.
While the English language is used worldwide, 70% of the world speaks other languages. This is a problem that more and more companies are realizing they have, as they expand their products worldwide. It is becoming more and more necessary to write code.
The talk will focus on demonstrating how to use natural languages tools and libraries such as NLTK, Spacey and SCIPy to extract sentiment out of sentences and explore parsing foreign languages. Specifically we will use Arabic and Hebrew in our example and show some interesting bits that might not occur in English.
By the end of the talk you should be able to build a simple sentiment analyzer that knows how to parse languages from right to left
PARKING: Attendees can either park on the street for free or pay to park in the building using the guest parking entrance. The office is in Ste 200.
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Please RSVP only if you can actually attend in person! If your plans change, please have the courtesy to remove yourself from the list so that everybody who can attend can get in! RSVP numbers also help sponsors plan how much food to buy. If you will no longer be at the meetup, please un-RSVP!
Recruiters are not welcome unless they are with the sponsor of our event! Any other recruiters who show up at our meetup will be asked to leave.
SoCal Python abides by this Code of Conduct (https://github.com/socalpython/meetups/wiki/Code-of-Conduct)
Hope to see you there!