A few weeks ago I presented at the NDC Minnesota conference. The event is part of the NDC Conferences family that I enjoy very much. It started as the Oslo event gathering community around .NET technologies and quickly spread out to London, Copenhagen, Sydney and now Minnesota. This is one of my favourite conferences as I think they’ve achieved a great balance between building an inclusive community and delivering a strong technical content. If you add to this the fantastic food and mastered event organisat
I submitted a talk ‘Natural Language Processing with Python’. It was aimed to make the introduction to text processing concepts, documents preparation for the machine learning problems and a simple Bag of Words model . My plan was to deliver a talk followed by a demo based on processing Reuters dataset documents. But as Murphy is teaching us, things are rarely going according to the plan. You may suspect few things one of them would be that my demo failed. But in this case, the problems started long before
It was, of course, the never-ending story about the broken projector. It appeared not to like my new laptop and resulted in a blinking sensation. Me, tech crew and people in the audience didn’t manage to make it work for around 10 minutes. The situation started to look ridiculous when the new idea came up to the picture – I was offered a different laptop. So simple, right? I exported my presentation and plugged in the borrowed laptop. From this moment everything in my session worked like a charm.