Natural Language Processing (NLP) assists computers with processing and understanding natural human language, such as speeches, tweets, and newspaper articles. NLP can range from counting the number of times a word appears in text to analyses that assess attitudes (e.g., positive, negative). NLP can be conducted on a variety of platforms, including the robust NLTK package in Python and several libraries in R.

For an introduction and hands-on experience using the NLTK in Python, DataCamp provides a free module as part of their NLP fundamentals course:...

Thanks again for being an early adopter of the new compute grid. As we’re about to open officially on Monday, we would like to take this opportunity to update the central R / RStudio installation for a number of reasons. We would do this work early in the day on Monday, and it would upgrade R to 3.5.1, from 3.4.2. (Note that this update would require an update/reinstall of any R packages that had been compiled.)

Thanks,

RCS Staff

Dear Compute Grid User,

This is a reminder that the next monthly Compute Grid maintenance is scheduled for Monday, November 5^th, from 8am until 12pm.

How will this affect...

The EXPLAIN statement is a very useful tool in SQL databases to help users better understand what's going on in queries and where to apply tweaks. For example, the output of EXPLAIN can help you decide where to add indexes and can quickly remedy slow queries by telling you the join type, the possible indexes to choose vs. the index actually chosen, the estimate of rows to be examined, etc.

How do you use EXPLAIN?

Simply put the keyword EXPLAIN in front of the query to be analyzed. EXPLAIN can be used in front of a query beginning with...