Shaham's

What is Source-Based-Language-Learning in this context? Very simple — it is my way of describing the process of learning a language to literally understand a source (i.e. book, speech, etc.). In the specific case of what I will be sharing, it translates to learning Classical Arabic to be able to read/comprehend the Quran (in its native language, without translation)....

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This project is an attempt to visually model groups of chapters in the Quran. Verse translation texts are analyzed using NLP topic-modelling techniques and then visualization using a specific art concept of Stefanie Posavec’s Sentence Drawings.

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Automatic topic-modelling and generation of 'wiring' drawings based on user's tweet history.

Twiring comes from Twitter+Wiring — because these diagrams look like ‘wiring’ diagrams. but also, twiring is to To glance shyly or slyly and that’s precisely the functionality of this form of visualization.

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Mapping Music based on their audio to study album flows and create your own mixtape.

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This post is adapted from an assignment I completed — I thought the project laid out the basic process of data modelling well and had an intuitive application making it easier for people to follow. This example highlights 6 general steps of a data analysis and discusses what kind of elements it would involve.

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Exploring NLP methods to quantify and profile tweets and users in a twitter community based on their internal and external information flow.

A Graph-based approach to community detection in Twitter Networks by modelling information flow between users.

A Web App (Python-Flask) that digitizes highlights from images using Image Processing (contouring, OCR) and stores them in a user's EverNote account.

A Web App (Python-Flask) that recommends you songs from pre-set playlists based on lyrical lexical qualities. Input a song you like or a block of text and I will recommend you a playlist, show you some fancy graphs, and let you automatically create a Spotify playlist!

A Natural Language Processing (NLP) approach to automatically detect connections through key entities and ideas across articles/documents. I analyzed a set of philosophy articles to see which Entities related them to each other and if this could guide our choice of reading.

A NLP Sentiment Analysis across chapters of a novel (The Catcher in the Rye) to capture patterns and trends as an enhancement to literary analysis. Used IBM's Bluemix and Watson APIs and wrote an essay on the pros/cons of this approach.