I am a data scientist who has a question about collocations based on a book I am reading. The book is “Feature Engineering for Machine Learning: Principles and Techniques for Data Scientists” by Alice Zheng, Amanda Casari. In chapter 3, regarding working with text data and natural language processing, the authors state: “Collocations are more … Read more
If we look at the word “internet”, we can see that it was virtually unused until around 1990. Next, if we look at the word “wifi” we can see that there was a huge jump in around 2000. My question is that while the usage seems low, the word “wifi” was clearly being used in … Read more
I was simply fiddling with Ngram viewer when my apparently naughty mind made me type the (real) “F-word” onto the text field, (the time was also chosen randomly, (1750-to-1993)), the results baffled me. (more like upside down flattened bell-curve) From the results it seems entire 19th century and early-to-mid 20th writers heavily eschewed the word … Read more
