10 things I learned while deploying my first python function to AWS Lambda

I spent a few days on and off trying to deploy a Flask REST service to AWS Lambda, just to experience what the cool kids were talking about. These are some of the things I learned along the way:   Zappa is the easiest packager/deployer for python (as of December 2018) Zappa provides good quality… Continue reading 10 things I learned while deploying my first python function to AWS Lambda

Readability scoring of the United Nations Corpus

Imagine you could estimate how hard would be to read a document, before reading it. Imagine you could do it for entire batches of documents you need to process. Imagine you could have a recommender system that would help you prioritize unread documents according to their difficulty. A bit of experimentation with the public United… Continue reading Readability scoring of the United Nations Corpus

Recommender system for finding subject matter experts using the Enron email corpus

This is a little project to create a recommender system to find mentors inside an organization, using Natural Language Processing. It started as an excuse to build a data visualization I had in mind: an interactive word cloud that did something. When I started, I didn’t know anything about Topic Modeling, Topic Extraction, or Natural… Continue reading Recommender system for finding subject matter experts using the Enron email corpus