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About the Course

This course will introduce the learner to text mining and text manipulation basics. The course begins with an understanding of how text is handled by python, the structure of text both to the machine and to humans, and an overview of the nltk framework for manipulating text. The second week focuses on common manipulation needs, including regular expressions (searching for text), cleaning text, and preparing text for use by machine learning processes. The third week will apply basic natural language processing methods to text, and demonstrate how text classification is accomplished. The final week will explore more advanced methods for detecting the topics in documents and grouping them by similarity (topic modelling). This course should be taken after: Introduction to Data Science in Python, Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation in Python, and Applied Machine Learning in Python....

Top reviews

CC

Aug 26, 2017

Quite challenging but also quite a sense of accomplishment when you finish the course. I learned a lot and think this was the course I preferred of the entire specialization. I highly recommend it!

JR

Dec 4, 2020

Excellent course to get started with text mining and NLP with Python. The course goes over the most essential elements involved with dealing with free text. Definitely worth the time I spent on it.

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By Jared H

Feb 27, 2020

Poorly constructed course overall. Covers some key topics so may still be worthwhile but lectures and assignments do not match up, expectation is that you just Google the material to complete assignments. Could do that without signing up for a course.

By Lin Y

Jul 16, 2019

This course is probably the worst amongst all other courses in this specialization. The term 'applied' in the course title makes you think that this course helps you to build practical experiences in text mining. However, not true at all.

By Fabrice L

Aug 9, 2017

This course repeat a lot what we have seen in the module 3 of the specialization. There is not enough coding examples and the first assignment is not well design. The lectures doesn't prepare you enough to tackle the assignments.

By Muhammad H

Jul 16, 2020

Exercises are pretty good and give you a lot of practice however the instructor is far below par. Just reading out the slides like a typical private uni teacher. I doubt if he could pass the assignments of this course.

By Vincenzo T

Apr 27, 2019

Course is very interesting. However, getting your assignments right is extremely annoying. Sometimes you have no idea why it's not right. Every upload you need to change the type of your upload.

By Goh S T

Jun 16, 2020

course materials are minimal and possible insufficient to complete assignments without additional reading materials. Assignment questions can be clearer with sample output will be very helpful.

By Farzad E

Mar 17, 2019

It gives you a better understanding of SVM and LDA after taking the third course but they have failed to provide enough examples and exercises. Not every module has a notebook unfortunately!

By Samuel K

Jun 22, 2019

Good course with great content and lecturer however the assignments are all buggy and don't run in the Jupyter notebooks. This is frustrating to deal with in a paid course. Please fix!

By Cong L

Mar 22, 2018

Lecture was long-winded and could not hit the main points. Assignment was difficult without many explanation. Tutors were more humiliating students rather than providing supports.

By Svitlana K

Jul 29, 2019

Worst course in the specialization so far. Tasks in the assignments are very poor written and are unclear. Just listening lectures don't help you to complete your assignments.

By Dan H

Mar 29, 2020

There were significant issues with the autograder and the instructions for the programming assignments. This course has been around for a while. Why aren't they fixed???

By Maguys C

Feb 16, 2022

Did not provide enough sample codes or real-life text mining applications. The videos were very high level and not enough to understand the context of the material.

By Shikhar S

Jun 6, 2019

The content of the course was quite good. But the level of teaching was a way too less than the level of Assignments. Ist assignment was too difficult to perform..

By Tal Y

Feb 18, 2018

The course takes you through the important NLP topics, the instruction is decent, but the assignments are clunky and waisted many hours of my time unproductively.

By Lovi R G

Oct 20, 2020

The assignments were far more beyond the content covered, hopefully either the content covered to be extended or the assignment scope to be changed.

By chris l

Jan 30, 2020

A lot of prior knowledge or independent learning is required to get the most out of this course. Needs more code walkthroughs.

By Adam G

Jul 23, 2023

so many bugs in the homework. Autograder is terrible. Spent more time debugging homework than actually learning.

By Stanley C

May 15, 2019

Assignment grading is way too rigid and not reflective of real world issues. It can be very frustrating.

By carol a

Oct 23, 2019

Instructions for assignments are vague and incorrect. Instructor was hard to follow during lecture.

By Sebastian H

Apr 30, 2019

The video lectures are good, but there are many issues with the Jupyter notebook assignments.

By Francisco H

Aug 8, 2021

There were some errors in the autograders and sometimes lack of response from mentors.

By Michal K

Dec 16, 2021

First weeks of the course are great, but then it lacks in programming exercises

By Alexandros B

Oct 4, 2017

poor organization of the lesson and many many mistakes during assignments

By Alex M

Aug 27, 2017

Instructors did a poor job of preparing students for the assignments.

By Ji S

Apr 15, 2018

Too coarse, quality worse than other courses in this specialization.