PyData Seattle (Bellevue, WA)

Schedule: 6:00 - 6:30 Mix and mingle 6:30 - 6:40 Announcements 6:40 - 6:50 Lightning Talk 6:50 - 7:30 Talk Night: Jason Kessler 7:30 - 7:40 QA 7:40 - 8:00 More networking Scattertext is a Python library for visualizing how words, phrases, topics and other linguistic units are associated with a category of text. This talk will cover different techniques for visualizing term-associations, visualizing both automatically generated and preexisting topics, and techniques to visualize word embeddings on a two-dimensional scatterplot. We'll work through notebooks which will be available at Source code for the package is hosted on Github at https://github.com/JasonKessler Prior to joining CDK, Jason was the founding data scientist at PlaceIQ and worked as a research scientist for JD Power and Associates. He has published peer-reviewed papers on algorithms and corpora for sentiment and belief analysis, and has sat on program committees and reviewed for several AI and NLP conferences.