For when your models converge
Spark: What’s up? I have been reading news about “The amazing blasting fast” data processing engine Apache Spark and it has been on my TODO list for quite some time and I guess it’s about time to give it a try. First, let’s see what’s up with Spark what problem does it solve and where does…Continue Reading “Spark: What’s all the hype?”
Chat bots are taking the internet by storm. A huge amount of attention and jobs are directed towards them for their wide range of uses. In this post we’ll build a very basic Fatwa chat bot, but first what’s Fatwa? In Islam the act of asking for a ruling on a case is called a…Continue Reading “Building A Basic Fatwa Chat Bot”
Analyzing text creates insights into what’s going on and how your audience are reacting to your posts. Better yet, you can analyze the audience themselves and their interactions with each others! In this post I will analyze Facebook comments on a sample of Facebook posts posted by I believe in Science, a community over science…Continue Reading “Analyzing the Arabic web”
Arabic NLP is a competitive field with new breakthroughs everyday. The complexity of Arabic makes it hard to perform cognitive tasks without being lost in the details. It is well known that the more data we have the better we can draw analytics from and the better models we can build. I’ve recently found many…Continue Reading “Arabic AskFM dataset”
Extracting information from free text that is available on the internet is an essential task for many businesses. These include but are not limited to: social media analytics, advertisements, sentiment analysis, question answering, and many more. Identifying certain tags in text like people’s names or organizations can give you the power to mine knowledge from…Continue Reading “Building an Arabic Named Entities Tagger”
In the past few years the field of Natural Language Processing has been rigged with new research ideas and new breakthroughs. State of the art scores have been broken on many tasks including Machine Translation, sentiment analysis, dependency parsing and many other tasks. These breakthroughs are due to many factors among which an algorithm called…Continue Reading “Word2Vec for Product Recommendations”
The Kaggle competition on Mercedes Benz greener manufacturing has concluded and the private leaderboard has had a huge shake up, people who were in the top #10 for the most part of the competition failed to remain in the top #10 on the private leaderboard, why is that? let’s explore the dataset and discover why….Continue Reading “The Mercedes Dataset”
Part of why I created this blog is to help myself and others follow our passion of learning and feed our desire for knowledge, keeping this in mind I’d love to have my first post on this blog as a little road map for beginners who are interested in Data Science or at least discovering…Continue Reading “The Data Science Learning Path”