Day 1: October 9, 2023 – 9:00 to 13:00 PST
Day 2: October 10, 2023 – 9:00 to 13:00 PST
Training Location: Online
Price: $395
This two-day workshop will walk you through building state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) solutions using John Snow Labs’ open-source Spark NLP library. This is a hands-on workshop for data scientists that will enable you to write and run live Python notebooks that cover the majority of the open-source library’s functionality. This includes reusing, training, and combining models for NLP tasks like named entity recognition, text classification, spelling & grammar correction, question answering, knowledge extraction, sentiment analysis and more.
The workshop is organized in two four-hour-long sessions, each followed by self-guided coding, on Python notebooks relevant to each section. This is a live online workshop whose instructors are current lead contributors to the Spark NLP codebase.
Day 1: October 11, 2023 – 9:00 to 13:00 PST
Day 2: October 12, 2023 – 9:00 to 13:00 PST
Training Location: Online
Price: $395
This two-day workshop for practicing data scientists will enable you to use and extend John Snow Labs’ Healthcare NLP library. You will run live Python notebooks that walk through clinical entity recognition, entity resolution (mapping entities to medical codes), assertion status detection (i.e. negation detection), relation extraction, and de-identification. You will also learn how to train and tune your own models for these tasks – and how to choose which pre-trained models to start from.
The workshop is organized in two four-hour-long sessions, each followed by self-guided coding. This is a live online workshop whose instructors are current lead contributors to the Healthcare NLP codebase.
Monday, October 2nd, 2023, 9:00am to 5:00pm
Basel Marriott Hotel, Messeplatz 25, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland
Cost: 200 CHF
This full-day, in-person, hands-on workshop for practicing data scientists will enable you the use core capabilities of John Snow Labs’ Healthcare NLP & LLM software. You will run live Python notebooks that walk through clinical entity recognition, negation detection, relation extraction, entity resolution, de-identification, summarization, and question-answering.
The day includes an overview of current benchmarks, the state-of-the-art for common LLM & NLP tasks, and tuning your own models. An overview of the 2,000+ available models will be provided, including specialty-specific models (oncology, radiology, mental health) and models tuned for different types of medical text (clinical notes, biomedical research, voice of the patient).
This workshop is conducted by John Snow Labs’ Head of Data Science and includes meals, breaks, and networking time – so you’ll also have time to ask questions about your specific projects. Participants will also get access to the full set videos covering the material for the ‘Healthcare NLP for Data Scientists’ certification exam and a pass to take the exam and get certified.
October 13, 2023 – 9:00 to 13:00 PST
Training Location: Online
Price: $295
This four-hour workshop for practicing data scientists will enable you to use and extend John Snow Labs’ Visual NLP library. You will run live Python notebooks that walk through key Document AI tasks like visual document classification, visual entity recognition, object character recognition (OCR), table extraction, and key-value extraction from scanned documents and images. You will also learn how to train and tune your own models for these tasks – and how to choose which pre-trained models to start from. This is a live online workshop whose instructors are current contributors to the Visual NLP codebase.
October 16, 2023 – 9:00 to 13:00 PST
Training Location: Online
Price: $295
This is a comprehensive hands-on training designed for those keen on mastering the art of text annotation, crucial for the success of any NLP model training. Whether you are a beginner aiming to dip your toes or an expert looking to refine your skillset, this course offers insights and skills tailored for you.
What You Will Learn:
1. Prepare High-Quality Training Data for NLP Models: Understand the intricacies of preparing high-quality training data, the backbone for creating robust NLP models.
2. Mastering The NLP Lab: Acquire hands-on experience in executing a complete annotation project with John Snow Labs’ high-productivity annotation tool: the NLP Lab.
3. Creating Effective Annotation Guidelines: Dive deep into the development of precise annotation guidelines. These guidelines are pivotal in ensuring consistency and accuracy across data annotation tasks and team members.
4. Tracking and Monitoring: Equip yourself with strategies to monitor your project’s progress and gauge the quality of annotations. This ensures that the project remains on course and maintains the highest standard.
5. Laverage No-Code Pre-Annotations: Jumpstart your projects leveraging pre-annotations from John Snow Labs pre-trained models, rules, prompts, or even with ChatGPT prompting. This integration not only accelerates the process but also enhances the quality right from the outset.
6. Effortless Custom Model Training: When you accumulate sufficient annotated data, leverage the ability to train custom models effortlessly via an intuitive UI, with the click of a button.
Why Choose This Training?
– Experienced Instructors: Our trainers are not just academicians; they have spearheaded multiple large-scale data annotation projects. Their rich experience ensures a practical approach to teaching, grounded in real-world challenges and solutions.
– Interactive Learning: Unlike conventional lectures, our training is hands-on. Instructors will be available during assignments to clarify doubts, offering a continuous learning experience.
– Certification: The journey culminates in a certification exam. Those who engage in the hands-on exercises and clear the exam will be awarded a certificate, recognizing them as Certified Data Annotation Experts.
Step into the world of data annotation with confidence and competence. Enroll now and set yourself on the path to becoming an expert in delivering successful data annotation projects
October 17, 2023 – 9:00 to 13:00 PST
Training Location: Online
Price: $295
Like any other technology, Natural Language Processing (NLP) requires business, product, and design leaders to understand what it can and cannot do – so that they can understand what opportunities it holds for improving their customers’ experience and bottom line with a solid ROI.
This five-hour live online workshop presents key concepts in NLP such as named entity recognition, document classification, transformers, pipelines, training, and annotation – but through the lens of real-world projects that got from concepts to production systems. The content is organized as a series of case studies, each starting with a business use case, diving into the solution architecture, explaining how NLP played part in the solution, and ends with best practices and lessons learned.
The instructor is a seasoned technology executive and NLP expert who oversaw the construction & operations of dozens of AI & NLP systems, and will be available for questions during and after the workshop.
Dates to be announced
Training Location: Online
Price: $195
This four-hour workshop for practicing data scientists will enable you to use and extend John Snow Labs’ Finance NLP library. You will run live Python notebooks that walk through common tasks like financial information extraction, entity recognition, relation extraction, assertion status detection, data enrichment, and de-identification. You will also learn how to train and tune your own models for these tasks – and how to choose which pre-trained models to start from. This is a live online workshop whose instructors are current contributors to the Finance NLP codebase.
Dates to be announced
Training Location: Online
Price: $195
This four-hour workshop for practicing data scientists will enable you to use and extend John Snow Labs’ Legal NLP library. You will run live Python notebooks that walk through key tasks in information extraction from legal documents such as contracts, clauses, and court proceedings. You will learn how to build NLP pipelines and reuse pre-trained models for legal text classification, entity recognition, assertion status detection, relation extraction, and de-identification – and how to also train and tune your own models for these tasks. This is a live online workshop whose instructors are current contributors to the Legal NLP codebase.
Hear from students
I really appreciate their team’s willingness to help and am amazed by what can be done using Spark NLP!
John Snow Labs Spark NLP training was well organized and easy to follow, I enjoyed that the sessions were focused on coding but also included a more general overview of the process. In addition to the webinar training, many resources were made available to participants which was very helpful in taking the certification exam.
The Spark NLP training sessions covered an astonishing amount of material and have been a valuable resource for me to come back to whenever I am unsure of an implementation. John Snow Labs clearly put a great deal of effort into creating a broad ranging curriculum that builds upon previous lessons, while still emphasizing how simple it is to create a complex pipeline with Spark NLP.
The instructor was attentive to questions and feedback during and after the session, and the certification exam that followed challenged me to think and dig deeper than just the surface of the course material. I highly recommend this course to anyone who is new to Spark NLP or to those who want to bolster their confidence in working with it.
Training & Certification FAQ
We offer seven training courses. All are hands-on workshops and the instructors are current lead contributors to John Snow Labs’ software libraries:
- "Certified Spark NLP Data Scientists” focuses on the open source Spark NLP library
- "Certified Healthcare NLP for Data Scientists” focuses on the Healthcare NLP library
- "Certified Visual NLP for Data Scientists” focuses on the Visual NLP library
- "Certified Finance NLP for Data Scientists” focuses on the Finance NLP library
- "Certified Legal NLP for Data Scientists” focuses on the Legal NLP library
Training courses are done online, with a live instructor.
The training courses are 1-2 days long. Each day includes four hours of live lectures and code walkthroughs.
Training courses are taught by current lead contributors to John Snow Labs’ software libraries who apply them in real-world projects on a day-to-day basis.
Of course. Live Q&A is encouraged and the instructor is also available to questions afterward.
We assume that you are a Python developer, know how to use its data science libararies, and are familiar with the basics of machine learning. Experience with Apache Spark is helpful but not required.
Yes. We can arrange courses to be done in person at your offices, and be customized to your specific use cases, programming language, or datasets.
We currently offer seven certifications, each matches the training course of the same name:
- “Certified Spark NLP Data Scientists” focuses on the open source Spark NLP library
- “Certified Healthcare NLP for Data Scientists” focuses on the Healthcare NLP library
- “Certified Visual NLP for Data Scientists” focuses on the Visual NLP library” focuses on the open source Spark NLP library
- “Certified Finance NLP for Data Scientists” focuses on the Finance NLP library
- “Certified Legal NLP for Data Scientists” focuses on the Legal NLP library
Register for the next training course + certification exam – there’s one every quarter – and pass it!
Each training course is designed to help you prepare for one certification. When you register for a training course you’ll automatically be given access to the exam after the training.
The exam will be accessible right after the training and you can complete it up to 14 days after the training.
An official digital certificate from John Snow Labs that includes your name, the type of certification, and the date in which you earned it.
Forever. Remember though that employers who see a 2-year-old certification will likely ask you how you’ve been keeping your skills up to date.
At this time, we only offer training & certification for hands-on data scientists.
20-30 multiple-choice questions about the NLP libraries’ features, code, models, and best practices.
It’s an online exam.
70%.
From the moment you start the exam, you have 60 minutes to complete it.
English.
It’s a multiple-choice exam so it’s graded automatically by counting the correct answers.
You'll see your results right after completing the exam. If you pass it, you'll be able to download your certificate in the "Library" section on the platform.
You'll have two attempts in total to pass the exam.
A desktop or laptop computer with a good Internet connection and a modern browser.
Not currently.
Download and run Spark NLP, run the Python notebooks relevant to the certification you’re taking, and read the documentation. The training courses are intended to prepare data scientists for the certification exam as well.
Registration is done through Eventbrite which accepts PayPal and all major credit cards.
Of course. You can download a receipt at the end of the checkout process.
Yes, but your company will have to pay it using the online form before the training starts. We do not currently support alternative payment methods or terms.
Yes! Please email us to describe your situation and needs.
Please email training@johnsnowlabs.com.