by Suf | Jan 25, 2025 | NLP, Programming
Close-up of a proofread English document with red pen marks highlighting corrections, crossed-out words, and inserted text, symbolizing error detection and text comparison. Image credit: Lamai Prasitsuwan / Shutterstock Welcome to our comprehensive guide on the...
by Suf | Jan 17, 2025 | Bioinformatics, NLP, Python, R, Statistics
Twin mushrooms on a forest floor. Image credit: SHI YOU / Shutterstock The Sørensen-Dice coefficient is a powerful statistical tool for measuring similarity between two samples. Originally developed for ecological studies by Thorvald Sørensen and Lee Raymond Dice, it...
by Suf | Jan 24, 2022 | Programming, Python, Tips
The Cartesian product of two sets A and B denoted A x B is the set of all possible ordered pairs (a, b), where a is in A and b is in B. We can get the Cartesian product between two lists saved as a 2D list in Python. This tutorial will go through different methods to...
by Suf | Dec 30, 2021 | NLP, Programming, Python, Tips
In Python, we can use built-in functions to manipulate strings. For example, we may want to capitalize the first characters in a name for form entry. The upper() function is helpful for converting all case-based characters in a string to uppercase. We can use the...
by Suf | Dec 9, 2021 | Data Science, Programming, Python, Tips
Hamming distance is a type of string metric for finding how similar two binary data strings are. If the strings are equal in length, Hamming distance determines the number of bit positions different between them. We can also describe Hamming distance as the minimum...
