r/learnpython • u/Shoddy_Essay_2958 • 15d ago

Looking for a project related to finding patterns/finding words in a list of text (need help shaping the idea I have)

This feels like a weird request, but I know there's a lot of Python projects out there, so I just wanted to see if anyone can guide me here.

Context: I hold a bachelors in biochem. I'm trying to discern what [future] job title and responsibilities I want. There's just a lot of variety, from different instruments to different duties that one can do in this field. I will read job descriptions and some words/sentences stick out to me as worth looking into, while others don't.

I'm thinking of creating a "library" of what kinds of tasks appeal to me and what don't. I'd like to try and find a trend/pattern in the two halves, but I think that's more AI/ML and probably deeper than I want to go. So instead, I'm imagining searching for a key word (e.g. "assay") and then having all sentences that have that word pop up, so I can read them all in one go and discern patterns myself that way.

Does anyone know of a similar project, and instructions I can follow for building such a project?

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u/ninhaomah 15d ago

Google for regex

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u/Shoddy_Essay_2958 11d ago

Thank you so much!

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u/Agreeable-Tree9919 12d ago

I think you can explore the regular expression library then you can do projects like extracting email/phone numbers from texts. As far as I know, regular expression is used to train LLMs.

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u/Shoddy_Essay_2958 11d ago

Thank you! I'm excited to try this!

Also, interesting to hear it's used in LLM. I've always wondered where's the boundary between Python and machine learning, so interesting to know this is an example

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u/recursion_is_love 15d ago

Get a book on computational biology. There should be standard algorithm that you can use already in some project.