athenahacks_demo

Demo Objectives:

• Ease of working with APIs in Python
• Basic NLP concepts with Python
• Word2Vec
• NLP + Classification

Getting Set-Up

Getting set-up with Python can be a pain sometimes, so hopefully these instructions make it as seamless as possible.

1. Download the anaconda distribution for your OS. If it's your first time, you'll want to check the add to path part, even if it shows up red.

2. Clone this repo and cd into it:

   git clone https://github.com/jwilber/athenahacks_demo.git
   cd athenahacks_demo

2. Once you have conda, install the environment for this project:

   conda env create -f environment.yml

This should create an environment called athena. This will install all required packages for the demo in a containerized manner. Read more about environments here.

3. Activate the newly installed environment.

   source activate athena

4. Set-up gensim stuff if necessary.

   python -m spacy download en

5. Launch jupyter notebooks

   jupyter notebook

A web-browser should launch serving the repo's content. Navigate to notebooks and go crazy.

When you're done with this, you can exit the python environment via source deactivate.