Getting Started with NLP and spaCy Transcripts
Chapter: Welcome to the Course
Lecture: About the instructor
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So, with that out of the way, I guess it might also be a good time for me to introduce myself.
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Hi, my name is Vincent and I will be your instructor for this course.
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At the time of making this recording, I currently work at a company called Probable.
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I'm doing very cool stuff here together with some of the Scikit-learn maintainers. Before that though, I used to work at a company called Explosion.
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This is the company behind Spacey, by the way. Before that, I've also been quite active in open source projects.
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In particular, you may have seen one of my talks on API data. I tend to frequent them, especially in Europe.
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But I also maintain a bunch of open source projects. My GitHub username is koning, K-O-N-I-N-G.
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And if you go to my profile there, you should see almost a small dozen of projects at this point.
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But you may have also heard from me from this project called CalmCode.io. I'm also the person who started that project.
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What you're also noticing, by the way, is that I like to teach using a drawing utensil. I have a little screen here that I can draw on.
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And I find that to be a very convenient way to teach. I can doodle around as if it's a whiteboard.
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But what I am also able to do is point to code that is on screen. And I really like to think that that's a nice way to learn.
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What I also really like is if I'm able to teach with a bit of focus. So I'm going to try to keep the videos nice and short.
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But I also want to prevent any distractions. And because the stuff that's on screen is going to be the most important thing, this
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will also be the last time that you actually see my face in this course.
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I'm going to be doodling over everything with the goal to keep things nice and clean and focused.
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And it's my hope that, of course, this is a very enjoyable style of teaching for you as well.
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But again, from now on we're going to do everything using the Wacom tablet that I've got.
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And you're going to see all the stuff that I also see on screen.