© Dipanjan Sarkar 2019
Dipanjan SarkarText Analytics with Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4354-1_1

1. Natural Language Processing Basics

Dipanjan Sarkar1 
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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 

We have ushered in the age of Big Data, where organizations and businesses are having difficulty managing all the data generated by various systems, processes, and transactions. However, the term Big Data is misused a lot due to the vague definition of the 3Vs of data—volume, variety, and velocity. It is sometimes difficult to quantify what data is “big”. Some might think a billion records in a database is “Big Data,” but that number seems small compared to the petabytes of data being generated by various sensors or by social media. One common characteristic ...

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