Contributing to open-source projects is a rewarding experience. Even though the contribution regards a small amount of code, being aware that those few lines will be used by many users, many times, in the future, gives a really satisfying feeling. The workflow was simple, I went on the issue tracker…

Today I’ve played a bit with Spark-NLP, the idea is to use it to extract relationships between Named Entities and their Part of Speech tags in a very scalable way. First, I installed Spark NLP, Python 3 (Jupyter Notebook), and used Apache Spark 2.4.0. …

Today I stumbled across on a possible event that can lead an experienced R programmer who is learning python to completely misunderstand its syntax. The problem arises since the R programming language allows the use of the . (dot) character inside variables definition. Instead, many programming languages, such as C…