Gensim at PyCon France 2016

Devashish Deshpande gensim

PyCon France 2016 was held in Rennes from the 13th-16th of October at Telecom Bretagne. Gensim had a presence on both the conference days with Bhargav Srinivasa presenting his talk on day 1 titled “Topic Modelling with Python and Gensim” and me presenting my workshop titled “Twitter User Classification with Gensim and Scikit-learn” (had a pretty boring sounding title before …

Three Sprints in India (To Say Nothing of PyCon)

Lev Konstantinovskiy gensim, Open Source, PyCon, Student Incubator

I was very happy to visit India this October to run three Gensim coding sprints, give workshops and visit PyCon India conference. Many thanks to our Incubator programme student Devashish Deshpande for being my host. PyCon India Pycon India was a very friendly event of 500 attendees with workshops on Friday and conference talks over Saturday and Sunday. My favorite PyCon moment was the keynote …

Gensim word2vec on CPU faster than Word2veckeras on GPU (Incubator Student Blog)

Šimon Pavlík gensim

Word2Vec became so popular mainly thanks to huge improvements in training speed producing high-quality words vectors of much higher dimensionality compared to then widely used neural network language models. Word2Vec is an unsupervised method that can process potentially huge amounts of data without the need for manual labeling. There is really no limit to size of a dataset that can …