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Make Data Work
March 5–6, 2018: Training
March 6–8, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA
Alex Thomas

Alex Thomas
Data Scientist, John Snow Labs

Alex Thomas is a data scientist at John Snow Labs. He’s used natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning with clinical data, identity data, and job data. He’s worked with Apache Spark since version 0.9 as well as with NLP libraries and frameworks including UIMA and OpenNLP.

Sessions

1:30pm–5:00pm Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Natural language understanding at scale with spaCy and Spark NLP
Data science and machine learning
 Location: LL20 C
David Talby (Pacific AI), Claudiu Branzan (Accenture), Alex Thomas (John Snow Labs)
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Natural language processing is a key component in many data science systems. David Talby, Claudiu Branzan, and Alex Thomas lead a hands-on tutorial on scalable NLP, using spaCy for building annotation pipelines, Spark NLP for building distributed natural language machine-learned pipelines, and Spark ML and TensorFlow for using deep learning to build and apply word embeddings. Read more.