Text Preprocessing

Learn to clean text with Python 3 using regular expressions (regex) and NLTK.


Text is everywhere, and knowing how to clean it will transform your data science skillset. Many in the industry estimate that 80% of data science is data cleaning, including text preprocessing. Transforming text into usable data requires specialized tools and techniques. This course introduces text cleaning with Python 3 using regular expressions (regex) and NLTK.

• Introduction to Regular Expressions: Get a taste of regular expressions (regex), a powerful search pattern language to quickly find the text you're looking for.
• Lesson: Introduction to Regular Expressions
• Quiz: Introduction to Regular Expressions
• Text Preprocessing: Before most natural language processing tasks, it's necessary to clean up the text data using text preprocessing techniques.
• Lesson: Text Preprocessing
• ExternalResource: Natural Language Processing with Python, Chapter 3
• Article: NLTK with Python 3 for Natural Language Processing
• Quiz: Text Preprocessing