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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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Text clustering


Text clustering is an unsupervised learning algorithm that helps to find and group similar objects together. The objective is to create groups or clusters that are internally coherent but are substantially dissimilar from each other, or they are far from each other when we express similarity in terms of distance. In simple words, the objects inside a cluster are as similar to each other, as possible, while the objects in one cluster are as dissimilar or far from the objects in another cluster as possible.

Traditionally, clustering has been applied on numeric data. Lately, it has found its usage even in text data. Text clustering is utilized to group text objects of different granularities such as documents, paragraphs, sentences, or terms together. We can find the application of text clustering in many tasks related to text data, for example, corpus summarization, document organization, document classification, taxonomy generation of web documents, organizing search engine...

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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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