Tonight I (finally!) made it to my first DC meetup event, and it was that of the DC NLP meetup. There was a good crowd there to see Brian Sacash present the sentiment analysis section of his Udemy course.

The presentation included a (well-done) live demo of the nltk package, but personally I found the material a little too much on the intro side for me. I would be interested in messing around with nltk in the future based on what I saw, but I’m not fixing to run out and crank out my own project based on what I learned tonight.

I would recommend both the videos and the level of the udacity course for beginners and absolute beginners. Check out the full course material on bsacash’s github site