Presented By
O’Reilly + Cloudera
Make Data Work
March 25-28, 2019
San Francisco, 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

9:00am–12:30pm Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Natural language understanding at scale with Spark NLP
Data Science, Machine Learning & AI
 Location: 2009
Secondary topics:  Deep Learning, Text and Language processing and analysis
David Talby (Pacific AI), Alex Thomas (John Snow Labs), Claudiu Branzan (Accenture)
Average rating: ****.
(4.75, 8 ratings)
David Talby, Alex Thomas, and Claudiu Branzan lead a hands-on introduction to scalable NLP using the highly performant, highly scalable open source Spark NLP library. You’ll spend about half your time coding as you work through four sections, each with an end-to-end working codebase that you can change and improve. Read more.