The main idea behind Natural Language Processing is machine can do some form of analysis or processing without human intervention at least to some level like understanding some part of what the text means or trying to say.While trying to process the text, computers needs to filter out useless or less-important data(words) from the text. In NLTK, useless words(data) are referred to as stop words.Installing Required libraryFirst you need the nltk library, just run the below command in your terminal:$pip install nltkSo we are going to remove these stop words, so they don’t take space in our database or taking ... Read More

In this, we are going to see how differently we can display our text in a very unique way using python.So let suppose I want to display “Hello, Python” and out many ways I could display my text/string (“Hello, Python”) like:Input“Hello, Python”Output 1___ ___ .__ .__ / | \ ____ | | | | ____ / ~ \_/ __ \| | | | / _ \ \ Y /\ ___/| |_| |_( ) \___|_ / \___ >____/____/\____/ /\ \/ \/ )/ __________ __ .__ \______ \___.__._/ |_| |__ ____ ____ | ___< | |\ __\ | \ / _ ... Read More

Python now provides new way to format strings, called f-strings. This features is available from Python 3.6 under PEP-498. They are so called (f-string) because of the letter ‘f’ prefix with a string. The letter ‘f’ also indicates that these f-strings can be used for formatting.Below are some of the examples to demonstrates the use of f-strings.Program#1name = 'Rajesh' age = 13 * 3 fString = f'My name is {name} and my age is {age}' print(fString) #We can use Uppercase 'F' instead of lowercase 'f'. print(F'My name is {name} and my age is {age}') #As the fString valuation is done, ... Read More

Steganography is a technique of hiding information behind the scene. It’s is not like cryptography which focuses on encrypting data(through different algorithms like SHA1, MD5 etc), steganography focuses more on hiding the data (data can be a file, image, message or video) within another file, image, message or video to avoid any attraction.So in this we’ll try to create a simple python program that hides the information behind the image without noticiable changes in the looks of the image. There are two main parts of the program – first is a decoding function that can extract secret information from an ... Read More

Python provides lots of libraries for image processing, including −OpenCV − Image processing library mainly focused on real-time computer vision with application in wide-range of areas like 2D and 3D feature toolkits, facial & gesture recognition, Human-computer interaction, Mobile robotics, Object identification and others.Numpy and Scipy libraries − For image manipuation and processing.Sckikit − Provides lots of alogrithms for image processing.Python Imaging Library (PIL) − To perform basic operations on images like create thumnails, resize, rotation, convert between different file formats etc.In this section we are going to see some basics of image processing in python.Install required library Our first step ... Read More

Folium is a very powerful python library which let you create seveal kind of Leaflet maps. As Leaflet/folium maps are interactive, so they are ideal for making dashborad building.InstallationInstalling folium is very easy using pip −$pip install foliumLike you can see from the below screenshot, you just need to type above command in your console/cmd and pip will install the folium as well as dependencies for your python installation.Basic Map#Import library import folium #Uses lat then lon. & zoomlevel 4.The bigger the zoom number, the closer in you get. mapOBJ = folium.Map(location=[17.3616, 78.4747], zoom_start = 4, tiles = 'Stamen ... Read More

Image recognition used to be done using much simpler methods such as linear regression and comparison of similarities. The results were obviously not very good, even the simple task of recognizing hand-written alphabets proved difficult. Convolution neural networks (CNNs) are supposed to be a step up from what we traditionally do by offering a computationally cheap method of loosely simulating the neural activities of a human brain when it perceives images.Convolutional neural network overviewVery similar to how we recognise different objects, computer algorithms need to go through millions of images before it is able to generalize the input and make ... Read More

Natural language processing is the study of automated generation and understanding of natural human languages. This is becoming more and more interesting tasks to solve, as computer technology is integrated into almost every industry nowadays. We are going to study one specific field within natural language processing; readability. This involves the topic of determining the readability of a text. This indicates how difficult it is to read or understand a text.A readability index is a numeric value that indicates how difficult (or easy) it is to read and understand a text. There are several different tests for determining readability, and ... Read More

Scrapy spiderScrapy spider is a class which provides the facility to follow the links of a website and extract the information from the webpages.This is the main class from which other spiders must inherit.ScrapinghubScrapinghub is an open source application to run Scrapy spiders. Scrapinghub turns web content into some useful data or information. It allows us to extract the data from webpages, even for complex webpages.We are going to use scrapinghub to deploy scrapy spiders on cloud and execute it.Steps to deploy spiders on scrapinghub −Step1 −Create one scrapy project −After installing scrapy, just run the following command in your ... Read More

One of the best frameworks for developing crawlers is scrapy. Scrapy is a popular web scraping and crawling framework utilizing high-level functionality to make scraping websites easier.Installation Installing scrapy in windows is easy: we can use either pip or conda(if you have anaconda). Scrapy runs on both python 2 and 3 versions.pip install ScrapyOrconda install –c conda-forge scrapyIf Scrapy is installed correctly, a scrapy command will now be available in the terminal −C:\Users\rajesh>scrapy Scrapy 1.6.0 - no active project Usage: scrapy [options] [args] Available commands: bench    Run quick benchmark test fetch    Fetch a URL using the ... Read More