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In this tutorial I will show you how we go from network data to a rectangular format that is suited for machine learning. Many things in the world are graphs (networks). For instance: real-life friendships, business interactions, links between websites and (digital) social networks. I find graphs (the formal name for networks) fascinating, and because I am also interested in machine learning and data engineering, the question naturally becomes: How do I get (social) network data into a rectangular structure for ML? [Read More]

Can we make the computer say something about characters in a book? In this piece I will search for the names of characters and the words around those names in books. What can we learn about a character from text analysis? Of course it’s also just another excuse for me to read the Hitchhikers series! I will break down the text into chunks of two words, extract the word pairs that matter and visualize the results. [Read More]