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Understanding (with) Data

Tech Musings and Projects of Alex de Vries

Understanding (with) Data

Tech Musings and Projects of Alex de Vries

QnA with LLMs: Langchain & openAI
AI tarot app: GPT api, React, JS & CSS
Groningen Crime Data Analysis
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Building a LLM: Question Answering About Wiki Pages Using LangChain and OpenAI

Alex de Vries April 1, 2023

Question answering (QA) is a NLP technique that allows machines to answer questions in natural language. It uses various approaches such as rule-based, information retrieval-based, and machine learning-based systems, including…

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Two Arguing Bots: Built Using Praw (Reddit API Wrapper) And OpenAI API

Alex de Vries March 21, 2023

This page introduces the use of the library praw to aquire information from reddit (read ‘forum’ if you’re not familiar) to be used as a starting point for an argument…

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Optimizing Python Code: A Practical Introduction Utilizing chatGPT

Alex de Vries March 12, 2023

This page gives a quick overview of the main points to pay attention to when optimizing code for speed and simplicity. For this example I optimize code from a previous…

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Cartman Haiku Generator (POS tagging with spacy and syllapy)

Alex de Vries February 28, 2023

A haiku is a short poem originating from Japan. It follows very specific rules to qualify as a haiku. First, it consists of three phrases. The first line has 5…

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entity recognition and sentiment analysis on Ukraine and Russia Twitter data (spacy, textblob)

Alex de Vries February 24, 2023

This tutorial shows how to analyse Twitter data with the aim of aquiring sentiment on various topics. This document will discuss sentiment analysis using ‘textblob’, entity recognition with Spacy and…

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Groningen Municipality Crime Data 1996-2021: a review

Alex de Vries February 18, 2023

This page contains the analysis performed on the crime data between 1996 to 2021 for the municipality of Groningen in the Netherlands. The data was aquired from an open dataset…

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Pump it Up: Data Mining the Water Table showcase

Alex de Vries February 10, 2023

The Ministry wants to know in advance which pumps are most likely to be non-functional, so that they can triage their repair efforts. They ask help to come up with…

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Understanding (with) Data

Tech Musings and Projects of Alex de Vries