text2math 0.0.8.dev1

A simple package designed to be used for demonstrating basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) feature engineering in Python.

## More Info:

### Practice Dataset

[Stack Exchange Data Dump](https://archive.org/details/stackexchange)

### Text Encoding

[The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html)

#### Packages

• [`chardet`](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet) - Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3

• [`cchardet`](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cchardet/1.0.0) - Universal encoding detector. This library is faster than chardet

• [`ftfy`](http://ftfy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#) - fixes text for you

• [`unidecode`](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode) - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text

### Natural Language Processing

[Care and Feeding of Topic Models: Problems, Diagnostics, and Improvementes](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~airoldi/pub/books/b02.AiroldiBleiEroshevaFienberg2014HandbookMMM/Ch12_MMM2014.pdf)

### Functional Programing in Python

[Functional programming in Python Examine the functional aspects of Python: which options work well and which ones you should avoid By David Mertz](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/functional-programming-in-python)

#### Packages

• [`toolz`](http://toolz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - Toolz provides a set of utility functions for iterators, functions, and dictionaries.

• [`functools`](https://docs.python.org/2/library/functools.html#module-functools) - Higher-order functions and operations on callable objects.

• [`itertools`](https://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html#module-itertools) - Functions creating iterators for efficient looping.