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Techniques for Collecting, Prepping, and Plotting Data: Predicting Social Media-Influence in the NBA

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As a result, there has been a recent explosion in individual statistics that try to measure a player’s impact. Knowing that the ultimate goal is to compare the social-media influence and power of NBA players, a great place to start is with the roster of the NBA players in the 2016–2017 season. 05) in predicting changes in attendance.

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Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models

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Although it’s not perfect, [Note: These are statistical approximations, of course!] GloVe and word2vec differ in their underlying methodology: word2vec uses predictive models, while GloVe is count based. then the model is predicting that the input x belongs to one class, whereas if it outputs anything less than 0.5,