Usman Malik

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Joined: Apr 17, 2018

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Big O Notation and Algorithm Analysis with Python Examples

There are usually multiple ways to solve the problem using a computer program. For instance, there are several ways to sort items in an array - you can use merge sort, bubble sort, insertion sort, and so on. All of these algorithms have their own pros and cons and the...

Usman Malik

Aug 22, 2022·21 min read

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The Bridge Design Pattern with Python

The Bridge Design Pattern is a Structural Design Pattern, which splits the abstraction from the implementation. In this article, we'll be covering the motivation and implementation of the Bridge Design Pattern in Python. Design Patterns refer to a set of standardized practices or solutions to common architectural problems in software...

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Apr 24, 2020·5 min read

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Reading and Writing JSON Files in Python with Pandas

Pandas is one of the most commonly used Python libraries for data handling and visualization. The Pandas library provides classes and functionalities that can be used to efficiently read, manipulate and visualize data, stored in a variety of file formats. In this article, we'll be reading and writing JSON files...

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Apr 10, 2020·9 min read

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Reading and Writing MS Word Files in Python via Python-Docx Module

The MS Word utility from Microsoft Office suite is one of the most commonly used tools for writing text documents, both simple and complex. Though humans can easily read and write MS Word documents, assuming you have the Office software installed, oftentimes you need to read text from Word documents...

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Mar 31, 2020·12 min read

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Default Arguments in Python Functions

Functions in Python are used to implement logic that you want to execute repeatedly at different places in your code. You can pass data to these functions via function arguments. In addition to passing arguments to functions via a function call, you can also set default argument values in Python...

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Mar 16, 2020·6 min read

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Removing Stop Words from Strings in Python

In this article, you are going to see different techniques for removing stop words from strings in Python. Stop words are those words in natural language that have a very little meaning, such as "is", "an", "the", etc. Search engines and other enterprise indexing...

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Mar 05, 2020·18 min read

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Text Classification with BERT Tokenizer and TF 2.0 in Python

This is the 23rd article in my series of articles on Python for NLP. In the previous article of this series, I explained how to perform neural machine translation using seq2seq architecture with Python's Keras library for deep learning. In this article we will study BERT, which stands for Bidirectional...

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Jan 28, 2020·26 min read

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Introduction to Speech Recognition with Python

Speech recognition, as the name suggests, refers to automatic recognition of human speech. Speech recognition is one of the most important tasks in the domain of human computer interaction. If you have ever interacted with Alexa or have ever ordered Siri to complete a task, you have already experienced the...

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Jan 03, 2020·13 min read

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Tensorflow 2.0: Solving Classification and Regression Problems

After much hype, Google finally released TensorFlow 2.0 which is the latest version of Google's flagship deep learning platform. A lot of long-awaited features have been introduced in TensorFlow 2.0. This article very briefly covers how you can develop simple classification and regression models using TensorFlow 2.0....

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Dec 04, 2019·19 min read