Drinks WITH Dr. Data (Season 2 - Episode 1): Natural Language Process and How You Turn Words Into Numbers

Drinks WITH Dr. Data (Season 2 - Episode 1): Natural Language Process and How You Turn Words Into Numbers

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Analytic Insights

Natural Language Processing, or NLP for short, is all the rage in artificial intelligence now-a-days. Everyone wants to do it, but very few really know what it entails. One of the first things to come to grips with is that computers don’t use words; they use numbers, specifically 0’s and 1’s to communicate. So if computers can only speak in 0’s and 1’s, how in the world do you turn words into numbers? Lets talk about it…