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Benjamin Bengfort is an experienced data scientist and Python developer who has worked in military, industry, and academia for the past 8 years. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, doing research in Metacognition and Natural Language Processing. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from North Dakota State University, where he taught undergraduate Computer Science courses. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University, where he teaches Data Science and Analytics. Benjamin has been involved in two data science start-ups in the DC region: leveraging large-scale machine learning and Big Data techniques across a variety of applications. He has a deep apprecia ...more

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	Applied Text Analysis with Python: Enabling Language-Aware Data Products with Machine Learning by Benjamin Bengfort (Goodreads Author), Rebecca Bilbro (Goodreads Author), Tony Ojeda (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 56 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Practical Data Science Cookbook by Tony Ojeda (Goodreads Author), Sean Patrick Murphy, Benjamin Bengfort (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Data Analytics with Hadoop: An Introduction for Data Scientists by Benjamin Bengfort (Goodreads Author), Jenny Kim 3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	(Practical Data Science Cookbook) [By: Tony Ojeda] [Sep, 2014] by Sean Patrick Murphy, Tony Ojeda (Goodreads Author), Benjamin Bengfort (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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