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How Far Can Classical NLP Go? From Bag-of-Words to Stacking on Spooky Author Identification | Towards Data Science
An end-to-end classical NLP experiment on Kaggle’s Spooky Author Identification task: from Vowpal Wabbit and TF-IDF/NB-SVM baselines to a tuned stacked ensemble, with a compact representation survey of Bag-of-Words, BM25, Word2Vec, and FastText for context.
🚀 Looking for a portfolio-ready NLP project?
I recently published an end-to-end walkthrough on Towards Data Science using Kaggle’s Spooky Author Identification dataset.
You’ll see how far classical NLP can go with:
📝 Bag-of-Words and TF-IDF
🔤 Character n-grams
📊 Model comparison
🧩 Ensemble stacking
It’s a practical project for anyone preparing for an ML/DS role, with no deep learning required. I walk through the entire workflow step by step:
🔗 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-far-can-classical-nlp-go-from-bag-of-words-to-stacking-on-spooky-author-identification/
I recently published an end-to-end walkthrough on Towards Data Science using Kaggle’s Spooky Author Identification dataset.
You’ll see how far classical NLP can go with:
📝 Bag-of-Words and TF-IDF
🔤 Character n-grams
📊 Model comparison
🧩 Ensemble stacking
It’s a practical project for anyone preparing for an ML/DS role, with no deep learning required. I walk through the entire workflow step by step:
🔗 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-far-can-classical-nlp-go-from-bag-of-words-to-stacking-on-spooky-author-identification/
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🗂️ D A T A U N L O C K E D
📌 Sokoto Coventry Fingerprint Dataset (SOCOFing)
✏️ Sokoto Coventry Fingerprint Dataset (SOCOFing)
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🔖 #categorical #computervision #classification #deeplearning #image
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· · · · · · · · · · · · ·📌 Sokoto Coventry Fingerprint Dataset (SOCOFing)
✏️ Sokoto Coventry Fingerprint Dataset (SOCOFing)
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Jul 23, 2018⚖️ License ›
Other (specified in description)🔖 #categorical #computervision #classification #deeplearning #image
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📈 F E A T U R E D D A T A S E T
📌 💳 Financial Transactions Dataset: Analytics
✏️ Dataset for Financial Analysis, Fraud Detection, and AI-Powered Banking Solution
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──────────────────────────📌 💳 Financial Transactions Dataset: Analytics
✏️ Dataset for Financial Analysis, Fraud Detection, and AI-Powered Banking Solution
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Oct 31, 2024⚖️ License ›
Apache 2.0🔖 #business #computerscience #datacleaning #datavisualization #dataanalytics
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🔢 D A T A S P O T L I G H T
📌 Credit Risk Dataset
✏️ This dataset contains columns simulating credit bureau data
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🔖 #earthandnature #lending
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· · · · · · · · · · · · ·📌 Credit Risk Dataset
✏️ This dataset contains columns simulating credit bureau data
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Jun 02, 2020⚖️ License ›
CC0: Public Domain🔖 #earthandnature #lending
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📌 H O T D A T A S E T A L E R T
📌 Credit score classification
✏️ Given a person’s credit-related information, build a machine learning model that
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· · · · · · · · · · · · ·📌 Credit score classification
✏️ Given a person’s credit-related information, build a machine learning model that
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9.5 MB👍 Votes ›
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Jun 22, 2022⚖️ License ›
CC0: Public Domain🔖 #earthandnature #business #finance #classification #tabular
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📌 H O T D A T A S E T A L E R T
📌 Stellar Classification Dataset - SDSS17
✏️ Classification of Stars, Galaxies and Quasars. Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR17
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— — — — — — — — — — — — —📌 Stellar Classification Dataset - SDSS17
✏️ Classification of Stars, Galaxies and Quasars. Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR17
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Jan 15, 2022⚖️ License ›
Data files © Original Authors🔖 #earthandnature #astronomy #physics #beginner #classification
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📌 H O T D A T A S E T A L E R T
📌 Airlines Delay
✏️ Airline on-time statistics and delay causes
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🔖 #aviation
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▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸📌 Airlines Delay
✏️ Airline on-time statistics and delay causes
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Nov 14, 2019⚖️ License ›
Unknown🔖 #aviation
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📈 F E A T U R E D D A T A S E T
📌 Brain Tumor
✏️ Extracted features for brain tumor
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🔖 #physics #classification #cancer
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──────────────────────────📌 Brain Tumor
✏️ Extracted features for brain tumor
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Jul 26, 2020⚖️ License ›
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0🔖 #physics #classification #cancer
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📊 K A G G L E D A T A S E T
📌 Boston Housing
✏️ Concerns housing values in suburbs of Boston
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▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸ ▸📌 Boston Housing
✏️ Concerns housing values in suburbs of Boston
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4.3 KB👍 Votes ›
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Jun 11, 2017⚖️ License ›
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0🔖 #earthandnature #education #realestate #socialissuesandadvocacy
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🔢 D A T A S P O T L I G H T
📌 StartUp Investments (Crunchbase)
✏️ Information about startup companies and investment via Crunchbase
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──────────────────────────📌 StartUp Investments (Crunchbase)
✏️ Information about startup companies and investment via Crunchbase
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CC0: Public Domain🔖 #business #finance #investing
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🧠 N E W D A T A S E T D R O P
📌 Arabic Handwritten Characters Dataset
✏️ Arabic Handwritten Characters Data-set
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— — — — — — — — — — — — —📌 Arabic Handwritten Characters Dataset
✏️ Arabic Handwritten Characters Data-set
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Jul 26, 2019⚖️ License ›
Database: Open Database, Contents: Database Contents🔖 #computerscience #computervision #classification #cnn
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📊 K A G G L E D A T A S E T
📌 Adult income dataset
✏️ A widely cited KNN dataset as a playground
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✏️ A widely cited KNN dataset as a playground
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Unknown🔖 #earthandnature
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