Signed up for our #GivingTuesday DataDive and wondering what you could do to prepare? Join us for a pre-DataDive prep course!

DataKind is partnering with Metis to provide a free NLP workshop for data-do-gooders who'd like to hone their skills in advance of the event. This is an intermediate level course, so it is best suited for those familiar with this technique.

Here's more about the course:

Natural Language Processing and Text Mining in Python

The session will cover NLP and text mining using Python and offer several examples of real world applications. Participants will be introduced to various text processing techniques and learn more about text classification, clustering, and topic modeling. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to use Python to explore and build their own models on text data.

Instructor: Michael Galvin

Michael is Executive Director of Data Science at Metis and a Data Ambassador for DataKind. Prior to Metis, he worked at General Electric, establishing their data science strategy and capabilities for field services and built solutions supporting Global operations, risk, engineering and more. Michael also spent several years as a data scientist working on problems in credit modeling at Kabbage and corporate travel and procurement at TRX. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and a Master's degree in Computational Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he also spent 3 years working on machine learning research problems for computational biology and bioinformatics.

Metis accelerates the careers of data scientists by providing full-time immersive bootcamps, evening part-time professional development courses, online resources, and corporate programs in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle.