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Hey Pythonistas, in this challenge you will expand on the work of PCC58, doing some natural language processing (NLP) on the podcast transcript data you collected. Have fun!

The Challenge

Here are the steps you would follow:

• Run your script of PCC58 to have the data ready in your project folder. If you have not done this and you want to work on the Talk Python To Me podcast transcripts, you can use one of the PR'd scripts here.
• Make a virtual environment and pip install nltk = NLTK / Natural Language Toolkit.
• Read up on how to use the library. You can read Natural Language Processing with Python for free online, isn't that awesome?
• From here on we leave you totally free to find the patterns in the data that you are interested in: sentiments, book recommendations, you name it.
• Show the results any way you like. We are new to the library ourselves, but we love Jupyter notebooks for their exploratory nature!
• PR your work via our platform. If you are reading this on our blog use this link.

Good luck and have fun!

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