Practical Python Text Preprocessing

Preprocessing text often the most important and time consuming part.   Here a step by step introduction in KDNuggets.  Practical.   With links to useful tools.

Text Data Preprocessing: A Walkthrough in Python

By Matthew Mayo, KDnuggets.

In a pair of previous posts, we first discussed a framework for approaching textual data science tasks, and followed that up with a discussion on a general approach to preprocessing text data. This post will serve as a practical walkthrough of a text data preprocessing task using some common Python tools.  .... "