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Verb Phrase book published

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The grammar of English is often thought to be stable over time. However a new book, edited by Bas Aarts, Joanne Close, Geoffrey Leech and Sean Wallis, The Verb Phrase in English: investigating recent language change with corpora (Cambridge University Press, 2013) presents a body of research from linguists that shows that using natural language corpora one can find changes within a core element of grammar, the Verb Phrase, over a span of decades rather than centuries.

Pascual Pérez-Paredes‘s insight:

Thanks to Costas Gabrielatos.

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10 R packages every data scientist should know about

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The yhat blog lists 10 R packages they wish they’d known about earlier. Drew Conway calls them “10 reasons to always start your analysis in R”. They’re all very useful R packages that every data scientist should be aware of.

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Online OCR

The Lousy Linguist: IBM SPSS Text Analytics – STAS vs. Word Clouds

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Pascual Pérez-Paredes‘s insight:

if you want a lot of people to use your product, you better make it usable for a lot of people. Obscure APIs with dense or non-existent documentation is fine for the hacker set, but the average person is not gonna learn R, Python, Scala, MapReduce, or Hadoop. Most professionals didn’t want to learn SPSS in the first place, they sure as hell don’t want to learn something else. Don’t punish your customers just because they don’t want to learn your pet framework. STAS wins because it doesn’t punish its customers. It helps them.

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