Are you tired of the social media game but still want to maintain your online presence?
I definitely am! So I created a Twitter bot called BlueJay which will post Tweets on your behalf and retweet posts that may be of interest to your followers.
To make this tutorial easier for you, I recommend downloading all files from the Github repository. All files should be in the same folder or directory.
Library Requirements
In order for the bot to work, you will need to install tweepy which is a Python library that allows BlueJay to interact with your Twitter account. …
In this post, I present a step-by-step explanation how to build a model (actually three) to classify text into language categories. This tool can be used on data that is parsed from online sources in order to categorise text into languages and filter the desired language before running analyses such as sentiment analysis.
Outline
For the sake of simplicity, the problem we aim to solve here is the classification of text into three possible languages: English, Dutch (Nederlands), and Afrikaans. We will:
- read in raw data and clean it;
- create a set of features that will be used to distinguish between…
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During the first three years of Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S. economy was growing at (as he would say) fantastic rates; experiencing all time stock market highs with record low unemployment levels. The left tried, with every fibre of their being, to impeach the…
“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.” ― Warren Buffett
With governments printing unprecedented amounts of money in the aftermath of the COVID-19 global pandemic, many investors have migrated their capital to inflationary hedges including gold and cryptocurrencies.
Many have already started making claims that the current crypto market bull run will far surpass that of 2017 as several altcoins have experienced explosive growth over the past year. Chainlink or LINK for example rose from $2.30 in August 2019 to $20 as of the time of this post, recording an annual return of over 765%!
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