Project: Classifying Sentiment of Reviews using BERT (NLP)
Build a deep learning based NLP model (BERT) which can classify sentiments of reviews on an e commerce platform.
Prabhakaran SPrincipal Data Scientist
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- Lessons
- 20, in 3 chapters
- Video
- 25 min
- Free to watch
- 6 lessons
- Certificate
- On completion
What you'll be able to do
- What is sentiment analysis?
- What are transformers in deep learning?
- How is BERT better than traditional NLP models?
- Various use cases of BERT.
- How to implement transfer learning with BERT?
- Build a sentiment classification model step by step.
- Evaluate and optimise sentiment classification model.
Course content
3 chapters · 20 lessons · 25 min · 6 free to preview
01Introduction to Transformers9 lessons · 12 min
- IntroductionPreview1:34
- Download Resources1:00
- Building Blocks EncoderPreview2:53
- Building Blocks Self AttentionPreview1:19
- Building Blocks Positional EncodingPreview1:01
- Building Blocks ResidualsPreview1:18
- Building Blocks DecoderPreview1:16
- Getting it Together Classification0:20
- Course Review1:00
02Introduction to BERT4 lessons · 6 min
- Overview1:45
- Use Cases Solved by BERT1:34
- Transfer Learning with BERT1:22
- Task-Specific Transformations0:55
03Classifying Sentiment of Reviews using BERT (NLP) (Code Demo)7 lessons · 9 min
- Setup Environment and Import Data2:03
- Preprocess Data for BERT1:32
- Split into train-validation-test sets0:50
- Initialize Dataloader0:21
- Train and Initialize Model3:05
- Plot Training and Validation Losses0:10
- Examine Results1:16
What you need
- Basics of Python
- Foundational knowledge of Data Science
- High school maths
Who this course is for
- Data Science Aspirants
- Data Science Professionals
- Software/Data engineers interested in quantitative analysis
- Professionals working with large datasets
- Data analysts, economists, researchers
Your instructor

Prabhakaran S
Principal Data Scientist
My name is Selva, and I am super excited to mentor you on this course!
I head the Data Science team for a global Fortune 500 company and over the last 10 years of my data science experience I've deployed 20+ global products. I'm also the Founder and Chief Author of Machine Learning Plus, which has over 4M annual readers.
I specialize in covering the in-depth intuition and maths of any concept or algorithm. And based on my existing student requests, I've put up the series of courses and projects with detailed explanations, just like on-the-job experience. Hope you love it!
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