Few months ago I started work on my open source project called nlphose. This project attempts to create command line utilities which can be piped together to perform various NLP tasks. When combined with a streaming source of text , such as twint or logs, you can create a complex pipeline that can p ...

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Writing a game can be a very fun task if you are using a framework like Phaser. I came across Phaser when I was looking for javascript libraries for game development. What I liked about Phaser is that is not just a physics engine, but has many features which make creating games using Javascript a br ...

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Watch the below video to know how you can create your very own real time twitter analytics system in minutes without writing any code. You can create powerful custom dashboard to monitor data without writing any code. This video shows how to create a real time twitter analytics system without wri ...

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One great feature of Google Cloud Storage is it’s ability to support streaming uploads and downloads. This allows us to upload data of arbitrary length, without having to download it onto disk. This can be a great option in a variety of scenarios, like archiving tweets to Cloud Storage or say saving ...

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In this DIY data science experiment we attempt to uncover more insights from tweets about Netflix by using fastText’s language identification model.We find top 10 languages used for tweeting about Netflix and their distribution around the world. The fastText language identification model is less th ...

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Last week I decided to do something fun with AI. I trained a small Recurrent Neural Network to generate random names of species as per the Binomial nomenclature (e.g Homo Sapiens) using GRU based RNN and Tensorflow. The name of species for training was taken from Uniprot’s website : https://www.uni ...

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As a ML practitioner, I am always on a lookout for cheap and easy ways for hosting my model. Google Cloud Functions can be a great option in such cases. In this article I will discuss some advantages of hosting your models for inference using Google Cloud Functions. Why Serverless / Google Cloud Fun ...

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I used Twitter Streaming API to collect around 272300 tweets in a duration of 24 hours starting July 14 2020. I wrote small piece of code using tweepy python library and stored them to a sqlite database. This video contains results of a datascience experiment which I performed on tweets containin ...

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Last year, I was introduced to a wonderful scientific instrument called the ‘Foldscope’. I have spent hours observing things with it. One of my favorite past times is to observe ciliates using the Foldscope. Ciliates are very simple single cell organisms which are easy to find and come in numerous s ...

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Like everyone else I studied ‘stomata’ when I was in school, however never got to see those till I purchased a Foldscope. The Foldscope is an amazing instrument and can be a great teaching aid in classrooms. Capturing stomata images can be very tricky. You need to be able to take an epidermal peel f ...

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