Data Toolkit Course - Full PDF Guide
Welcome to the full beginner-to-advanced guide to the Data Toolkit Course. This course covers
major Python libraries used in Data Science, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning
projects.
What You'll Learn:
- NumPy: Mathematical arrays, indexing, reshaping
- Matplotlib: Visualizing data using graphs and charts
- NLTK: Tokenization, stopword removal, stemming, lemmatizing, and corpus handling
- PorterStemmer & WordNet Lemmatizer: Two ways to normalize words
- TF-IDF & Cosine Similarity: For text classification, search, and chatbots
- Clever Chatbot Project using all of the above
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NumPy: Examples and Concepts
NumPy is the backbone of numerical computing in Python.
# Example 1: Array Creation
import numpy as np
arr = [Link]([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]])
print([Link])
# Example 2: Reshape and Operations
arr2 = [Link](3, 2)
print([Link](arr2))
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Matplotlib: Examples and Graphs
Matplotlib is used for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python.
# Example 1: Line Plot
import [Link] as plt
import numpy as np
x = [Link](0, 10, 100)
y = [Link](x)
[Link](x, y)
[Link]("Sine Wave")
[Link]()
# Example 2: Bar Graph
x = ['A', 'B', 'C']
y = [5, 7, 3]
[Link](x, y)
[Link]("Sample Bar Chart")
[Link]()
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NLTK: Natural Language Toolkit
NLTK is a library used for building Python programs that work with human language.
# Tokenization
from [Link] import word_tokenize
word_tokenize("Hello world!")
# Stopwords
from [Link] import stopwords
[Link]("english")
# Stemming and Lemmatizing
from [Link] import PorterStemmer, WordNetLemmatizer
ps = PorterStemmer()
wl = WordNetLemmatizer()
print([Link]("running"))
print([Link]("running", pos='v'))
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TF-IDF + Cosine Similarity
TF-IDF is used to measure the importance of words in a document. Cosine similarity checks how
close two vectors (texts) are.
# Example
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
from [Link] import cosine_similarity
corpus = ["I love apples", "Apples are sweet", "I hate sadness"]
vec = TfidfVectorizer()
X = vec.fit_transform(corpus)
cosine_similarity(X[0], X[1])
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Final Project: Clever Chatbot
The chatbot uses:
- Preprocessing with NLTK (tokenizing, stopwords, stemming)
- Intent classification using TF-IDF + Cosine Similarity
See full code in [Link] file.
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Extra Libraries to Explore Later:
- pandas: dataframes, CSVs, data cleaning
- seaborn: better statistical plots
- scikit-learn: model training & prediction
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Keep this guide as your quick reference while practicing the course.
Happy coding!