Nitin Hardeniya is a data scientist with more than 4 years of experience working with companies such as Fidelity, Groupon, and [24]7-inc. He has worked on a variety of business problems across different domains. He holds a master's degree in computational linguistics from IIIT-H. He is the author of 5 patents in the field of customer experience.
He is passionate about language processing and large unstructured data. He has been using Python for almost 5 years in his day-to-day work. He believes that Python could be a single-point solution to most of the problems related to data science.
He has put on his hacker's hat to write this book and has tried to give you an introduction to all the sophisticated tools related to NLP and machine learning in a very simplified form. In this book, he has also provided a workaround using some of the amazing capabilities of Python libraries, such as NLTK, scikit-learn, pandas, and NumPy.