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Stemming of words in Natural Language Processing, what is it?

by Sunny Srinidhi - 1

Stemming is one of the most common data pre-processing operations we do in almost all Natural Language Processing (NLP) projects. If you're new to this space, it is possible that you don't exactly know what this is even though you have come across this word. You might also be confused between stemming and lemmatization, which are two similar operations. In this post, we'll see what exactly is stemming, with a few examples here and there. I hope I'll be able to explain this process in simple words for you. Stemming To put simply, stemming is the process of removing a part of a word, or reducing a word to its stem or root. This might not necessarily mean we're reducing a word

Forward Selection for Feature Selection in Machine Learning

by Sunny Srinidhi - 2

In our previous post, we saw how to perform Backward Elimination as a feature selection algorithm to weed out insignificant features from our dataset. In this post, we'll checkout the next method for feature selection, which is Forward Selection. As you can already guess, this is going to be the opposite of backward elimination, well kind of. But before that, make sure you make yourself familiar with the concept of P-value. Similar to backward elimination, even here we have a few steps to follow. We'll go one by one as usual. But before going in, you need to know that this is going to be a bit more tedious of a job than backward elimination, because you have to create a

Backward Elimination for Feature Selection in Machine Learning

by Sunny Srinidhi - 1

When we're building a machine learning model, it is very important that we select only those features or predictors which are necessary. Suppose we have 100 features or predictors in our dataset. That doesn't necessarily mean that we need to have all 100 features in our model. This is because not all 100 features will have significant influence on the model. But then again, this doesn't mean it will be true for all cases. It depends entirely on the data we have in hand. Here is more info about why we need feature selection. There are various ways in which you can find out which features have very less impact on the model and which ones you can remove from your

ColumnTransformer in SciKit for LabelEncoding and OneHotEncoding in Machine Learning

by Sunny Srinidhi - 3
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In a very old post - Label Encoder vs. One Hot Encoder in Machine Learning - I had demonstrated how to use label encoding and one hot encoding to separate out categorical text data into numbers and different columns. But the SciKit library has come a long way since I wrote that post, and it has made life a lot more easier. The developers of the library might have realised that people use LabelEncoding and OneHotEncoding very frequently. So they decided to come up with a new library called the ColumnTransformer, which will basically combine LabelEncoding and OneHotEncoding into just one line of code. And the result is exactly the same. In this post, we'll quickly take a look at

Linear Regression in Python using SciKit Learn

by Sunny Srinidhi - 1
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Today we'll be looking at a simple Linear Regression example in Python, and as always, we'll be using the SciKit Learn library. If you haven't yet looked into my posts about data pre-processing, which is required before you can fit a model, checkout how you can encode your data to make sure it doesn't contain any text, and then how you can handle missing data in your dataset. After that you have to make sure all your features are in the same range for the model so that one feature is not dominating the whole output; and for this, you need feature scaling. Finally, split your data into training and testing sets. Once you're done with all that, you're ready to start your

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