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Making binary annotations less boring
14/08/2021
Introduction For a university project, I’m developing a Music recommendation classifier based on the Spotify API.  The idea is to recommend new music to the user, based on songs he personally likes or dislikes and on the musical components of the song (speed, tonality, instrumentality and many more). The preparation of the dataset usually is the most time-consuming part of any machine learning project. This usually consists of gathering...
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Building a simple sentiment classifier in R using Trump's tweets
08/07/2019
For the past few years, tasks involving text and speech processing have become really hot-trendy. Among the various researches belonging to the fields of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, sentiment analysis ranks really high. Sentiment analysis allows identifying and getting subjective information from the source data using data analysis and visualization, ML models for classification, text mining and analysis. This helps to...
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Accessing the News API in Python
03/01/2019
Accessing and analyzing media content is a fascinating part of data analytics. It allows to follow trends of public interest over time or to see how stories evolve (e.g.  newslens ). While many media outlets offer APIs, it is cumbersome to collect them individually. News API closes that gap and allows to search and retrieve live articles from all over the web.     In this tutorial we will retrieve the latest news...
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EU Open Data Portal API: A short guide
18/10/2018
  Due to changes in the EU Open Data Portal - API, the API access demonstrated in this tutorial is currently not working. We will try to fix it asap. If you have any questions, please contact us: info@datacareer.de .  The EU Open Data Portal gives access to open data published by EU institutions, agencies and other bodies. Around 70 EU institutions, bodies or departments use the platform to make over 12,500 datasets...
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Accessing ECB Exchange Rate Data in Python
16/10/2018
In this Jupyter Notebook we will retrieve data from the European Central Bank (ECB). The ECB publishes through the European Open Data Portal, which we discussed in the previous tutorial . Before diving into the code, please take a quick look at the following websites, to get a feel for what we will be dealing with. EU portal: https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/publisher/ecb ECB SDMX 2.1 RESTful web service:...
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