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Published inDec 2016
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KUMAR ASHISH
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KUMAR ASHISH

Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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Accessing text from diverse sources


Reading data from diverse sources for analysis, and exporting the results to another system for reporting purposes can be a daunting task that can sometimes take even more time than the real analysis. There are various sources from which we can gather text; some of them are HTML pages, social media, RSS feeds, JSON or XML, enterprise environments, and so on. The source has a very important role to play in the quality of textual data and the way we access the source. For instance, in the case of an enterprise environment, the common sources of text or data can be database and log files. In a web ecosystem, web pages are the source of data. When we consider web service applications, the sources can be JSON or XML over HTTP or HTTPS. We will look into various data sources and ways in which we can collect data from them.

File system

Reading from a file system is a very basic capability that any programming language should provide. We may have collections of...

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Published in: Dec 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781783551811

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KUMAR ASHISH

Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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