CoP: Data Science: Create Text Analysis Tutorial

[akhaleghi]

Overview

Update the Text Analysis page with resources and an article header.

Action Items

• [ ] Create a Google Doc in the folder provided under resources
  • [ ] Draft an introductory paragraph explaining what the tutorial resources cover and why a new data scientist would use them for working with data at Hack For LA
  • [ ] Identify resources with vetted tutorials covering important skills within the tutorial area, adding to the draft
• [ ] Review the draft with the Data Science CoP
• [ ] Add to the wiki page

Resources/Instructions

Wiki page

Text Analysis Tutorial

Location for any files you might need to upload (drafts, images, etc.)

• Folder for files related to the Text Analysis tutorial
  • DS: Text Analysis Tutorial Google Doc

Tools that are core that should be mentioned:

• nltk
• SpaCy

Examples of resources that would be useful to include:

• Web how-to/tutorial/walk-throughs
• Youtube playlists or videos demonstrating tools
• Links to blogs or platforms with subject matter experts

[bfang22]

Hi - I might be able to work on this. I brainstormed an outline of topics, but would appreciate some feedback on scope and where to draw the line. Should this be more focused on text processing/analysis fundamentals or do we want to go all the way to building and evaluating predictive/classification models?

Potential tutorials:

• Google Cloud NLP API: How-to Guides  |  Cloud Natural Language API  |  Google Cloud
• Google Developers ML text classification: Introduction  |  Machine Learning  |  Google for Developers

Use Cases

• Most frequent tokens, entities (beginner)
• Prediction/Classification (intermediate)
  • Sentiment, Next Word, other user-defined outcomes
• Language Inference, Translation (advanced)

Text Analysis Basics

Pre-processing

• Stop Words
• Lemmatization vs Stemming
• Tokenization
• N-grams

Analysis basics (with libraries)

• Named Entity Recognition
• Part of Speech Tagging
• Topic Modeling

More advanced...

Vectorization/Encoding

• One-hot encoding (Beginner)
• BOW (Beginner)
• TF-IDF (Intermediate)
• Word embeddings (advanced)

Building Models

• Logistic Regression
• MLP
• SVM

Hyperparameter Tuning

• Bias/variance tradeoff
• Learning rate, epochs, etc

Metrics

• Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F1

[bfang22]

Feedback from DS meeting:

• Connect topics and tutorials to HFLA datasets and projects

• Build tutorial/notebook using HFLA dataset

• [x] Review 311 dataset to see if there's textual data that's a good fit

• [ ] Explore alternatives: affordable housing or scraping HFLA agenda issues

[bfang22]

• [x] Identified 2 datasets with textual data: Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture's data on Community Impact Art Grants and Organizational Grants Program
• [ ] Create tutorial (jupyter notebook)
  • pre-processing
  • [ ] using nltk library (stopwords, tokenizers, stem)