
Explore practical sentiment analysis using deep learning with Keras and Python, implementing a model in under 60 lines of code with the IMDb dataset on a Jupyter notebook.
Explore the MNIST digits dataset by loading digits data and targets, inspect 64-pixel eight-by-eight images, understand shapes, and train a classifier to recognize digits 0-9.
Train an SVM classifier on digit data, learn from input and target pairs, test predictions on held-out data, and observe how parameter changes affect outcomes before moving to deep learning.
Define machine learning practically, contrast it with deep learning, and describe supervised learning with training and test sets, regression, classification, ground truth, and deployable edge models.
Learn regression fundamentals by building a simple linear model that predicts house price from area, using data points and mean squared error to fit theta zero and theta one.
Explore classification with neural networks, moving from binary to multi-class, using sigmoid squashing for 0–1 outputs, and building deep networks with hidden layers for a modular approach and high-level decisions.
Explore sentiment analysis with deep learning in Keras and Python, recapping model fitting and error minimization, then from simple classification to deep neural networks with multiple hidden layers.
Learn to install and configure a Windows-based deep learning environment for sentiment analysis with Keras and Python, including 64-bit Windows, Anaconda, Python 3.6, virtualenv, and Jupyter notebook setup.
Learn to set up a sentiment analysis environment on macOS or Linux with Anaconda, Python 3.6, a virtual environment, and a Jupyter notebook.
Prepare image data for a keras model by loading a dataset, flattening 28×28 images to 784 vectors, normalizing pixel values to 0–1, and converting labels to one-hot encodings.
Learn how to build a simple keras sequential model with dense layers, activation functions, and a softmax output, then compile, fit, and evaluate it to improve accuracy.
Analyze sentiment with deep learning in Keras and Python by loading the idb dataset, examining data shapes, and building word-index and reverse mappings for converting between sentences and sequences.
Encode sentences into sequences of word indices using a word-to-ideas dictionary. Pad inputs with zeros and clip longer ones to a fixed maximum, such as 400, to handle unknown words.
Train a sequential model with an embedding layer to map words to vectors, then predict sentiment for reviews and tweets, demonstrating real-world applications and common negation challenges.
Learn convolutional neural networks, including filters, padding, and stride, to detect robust features in color images and classify CIFAR-10 images.
Learn to build a convolutional neural network with Keras, using Conv2D on 32x32x3 images, 16 filters, relu activations, flattening, and a 10-class dense output trained with categorical cross-entropy.
Explore max pooling with a 2x2 pool size to reduce feature map size and boost training speed, illustrating translation invariance and noting that average pooling is an alternative.
Apply dropout to neural network layers to prevent overfitting and improve generalization by randomly setting a fraction of activations to zero during training.
Learn to convert a CNN to the Keras functional API, building a 32x32x3 input CNN with conv layers, pooling, dropout, flatten, and softmax. Prepare for models using merging and concatenation.
Examine sentiment analysis with cnn and lstm architectures, embedding, 1d convolution, dropout, global max pooling, dense sigmoid output, and binary cross-entropy, then compare lstm variants.
Save and load model weights via a model checkpoint callback, saving to a checkpoints folder with epoch and validation accuracy, then reload weights to resume or deploy.
Explore essential resources for mastering deep learning with keras and python, including official documentation, blogs, and tutorials to strengthen sentiment analysis skills.
Do you want to learn to do sentiment analysis? The answer should almost always be yes if you are working in any business domain. Every company on the face of the earth wants to know what its customers feel about its products and services — and sentiment analysis is the easiest way and most accurate way of finding out the answer to this question.
By learning to do sentiment analysis, you would be making yourself invaluable to any company, especially those which are interested in quality assurance of their products and those working with business intelligence (which is almost all sensible companies, large and small, nowadays).
And in this course, we make doing sentiment analysis really easy. In the very first video, we introduce a less than 60 line sentiment analysis engine that can perform industry grade sentiment analysis. We then spend the rest of the course explaining these very powerful 60 lines so that you have a thorough understanding of the code. After you are done with this course, you would immediately be able to plug this system into your existing pipelines to do sentiment analysis of any text you can throw at it.
That is one of the reasons you should be doing sentiment analysis using Python and not some other “data science language” such as R. If you work with R and do sentiment analysis, you would still have to put in a lot of effort to take this skill to the market. If you write your sentiment analysis engine in Python, incorporating your code into your final business product is dead easy.
The second important tip for sentiment analysis is the latest success stories do not try to do it by hand. Instead, you train a machine to do it for you. That is why we use deep sentiment analysis in this course: you will train a deep learning model to do sentiment analysis for you. That way, you put in very little effort and get industry standard sentiment analysis — and you can improve your engine later on by simply utilizing a better model as soon as it becomes available with little effort.
We will focus on the following:
Understanding how to write industry grade sentiment analysis engines with very little effort
Basics of machine learning with minimal math
Understand not only the theoretical and academic aspects of sentiment analysis but also how to use it in your own field — real world sentiment analysis
Tips on avoiding mistakes made by new-comers to the field and the best practices to get you to your goal with minimal effort
About the instructor:
Teacher and researcher by profession
PhD in Security and a PostDoc from Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
17+ years of working with computers and 15+ years of teaching experience
5+ years of working extensively with deep learning. I worked with almost all the modern tools as soon as they were released
Best seller instructor on Udemy with many highly rated courses!
Target Audience:
Anyone who:
wants to do sentiment analysis in the real world
wants to understand how deep learning can help with sentiment analysis
is working for a company that wants to see how its products are doing with their customers
What you need to know:
Python basics (installation, if, loops, lists) - Everything else will be covered in the course
No machine learning background is assumed (but we keep the theory to a minimum)