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Pycon 2016 and Gensim Sprint Recap

Lev Konstantinovskiy 2016-06-20 gensim, Machine Learning, PyCon 2 Comments

Our team was on site representing RaRe Technologies and Gensim at this year’s PyCon 2016 hosted in Portland, Oregon, from May 28th to June 5th. It was a packed, outright massive event of over 3000 attendees which included two days of focused tutorials, sponsor workshops and talks from some of the industry’s renowned experts. RaRe was a sponsor of the …

Does Python Stand a Chance in Today’s World of Data Science? [video]

Tony DiLoreto 2015-08-30 gensim, Machine Learning 4 Comments

Earlier this summer, our director Radim Řehůřek, led a talk about the state of Python in today’s world of Data Science. Covered in the talk is how businesses are using Python for commercial success, Python vs Java, and an interesting comparison of the popular latent semantic analysis (SVD) and word2vec algorithms running on with different platforms: Spark MLlib, gensim, scikit-learn …

Data streaming in Python: generators, iterators, iterables

Radim Řehůřek 2014-03-31 gensim, programming 18 Comments

There are tools and concepts in computing that are very powerful but potentially confusing even to advanced users. One such concept is data streaming (aka lazy evaluation), which can be realized neatly and natively in Python. Do you know when and how to use generators, iterators and iterables?