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Understanding Sentiment Analysis and Its Applications

This course is packed with everything you need to know to understand the field and be confident about getting started in production settings.

 Allen ONeill - Pluralsight course - Understanding Sentiment Analysis and Its Applications
by Allen ONeill

What you'll learn

Sentiment analysis is something humans take for granted, but can be a significant challenge for a machine. In this course, Understanding Sentiment Analysis and Its Applications, you’ll gain the ability to plan and understand how to apply the main techniques required for successful data analysis in this area of NLP. First, you’ll explore what we mean by "sentiment analysis". Next, you’ll discover the general theory and core concepts of the field. Finally, you’ll learn how to approach practical problems and challenges as you move from theory into the real world of production. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of sentiment analysis needed to discuss the topic with confidence and have a solid grounding to enable you to start planning out a production implementation to analyze sentiment.

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About the author

 Allen ONeill - Pluralsight course - Understanding Sentiment Analysis and Its Applications
Allen ONeill

Allen is a chartered engineer with a background in enterprise systems. A Microsoft MVP, he writes for CodeProject, C-SharpCorner and DZone. Core technology interests are Big Data and Machine Learning, using these to create intelligent agents for the web. He is also a ball throwing slave to his family dogs.

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