Discovering Disease Outbreaks from News Headlines

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intermediate Python • beginner scikit-learn • basics of pandas • basics of data science
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text extraction with pandas • clustering with K-means and DBSCAN • visualize clusters
Leonard Apeltsin and Will Koehrsen
4 weeks · 5-10 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE
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In this liveProject, you’ll take on the role of a data scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO is responsible for responding to international epidemics, a critical component of which involves monitoring global news headlines for signs of disease outbreaks. However, this daily deluge of news data is too huge to manually analyze. Your challenge is to pull geographic information from headlines, and determine where in the world outbreaks are occurring. Problems you will have to solve include extracting information from text using regular expressions, using the Basemap Matplotlib extension to visualize map locations for patterns indicating an epidemic, and reporting your findings to your superiors so resources can be dispatched.
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Leonard Apeltsin
Leonard Apeltsin is a co-founder of Primer AI, a startup that develops advanced technology to analyze terabytes of unstructured text data. Leonard helped expand the Primer AI team from four employees to over 80. His PhD research on bioinformatics required analyzing millions of sequenced DNA patterns to uncover genetic links in deadly diseases. It was this research that led him to realize that his skills were transferable to other areas of analysis; and Leonard's data science consultancy was born. Leonard is currently a research fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.
William Koehrsen
Will Koehrsen is lead data scientist at Cortex Building Intelligence, a startup helping engineers improve energy efficiency in office buildings using analytics and machine learning. He has built numerous machine learning pipelines to optimize building operations, including algorithms to find the best time for engineers to start and stop their buildings' air conditioning/heating in some of the largest buildings in Manhattan, including the Empire State Building. Will is passionate about data science and helping others join the field. He writes for Towards Data Science.

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The liveProject is for intermediate Python programmers who know the basics of data science. To begin this liveProject, you will need to be familiar with:

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  • Basics of scikit-learn
  • Basics of text extraction
  • Basics of K-means and DBSCAN clustering
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