Month: June 2018

Universal Language Model Fine Tuning ulmfit for text classification

Understanding the Working of Universal Language Model Fine Tuning (ULMFiT)

by Yashu Seth, posted in Neural Networks, NLP

Transfer Learning in natural language processing is an area that had not been explored with great success. But, last month (May 2018), Jeremy Howard and Sebastian Ruder came up with the paper - Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification which explores the benefits of using a pre-trained model on text classification. It proposes ULMFiT, a transfer … Continue reading Understanding the Working of Universal Language Model Fine Tuning (ULMFiT)

How to pivot large tables in BigQuery?

by Yashu Seth, posted in Python, SQL

Pivoting a table is a very common operation in data processing. But there is no direct function in BigQuery to perform such operation. To solve this problem I have written a Python module, BqPivot. It generates a SQL query to pivot a table that can then be run in BigQuery. In this blog post, I will … Continue reading How to pivot large tables in BigQuery?