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Turning Your Data Swamp into Gold: A Developer’s Guide to NLP on Legacy Logs

Turning Your Data Swamp into Gold: A Developer’s Guide to NLP on Legacy Logs

Update: 2025-12-18
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/turning-your-data-swamp-into-gold-a-developers-guide-to-nlp-on-legacy-logs.

A practical NLP pipeline for cleaning legacy maintenance logs using normalization, TF-IDF, and cosine similarity to detect fraud and improve data quality.

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The NLP Cleaning Pipeline is a tool to clean, vectorize, and analyze unstructured "free-text" logs. It uses Python 3.9+ and Scikit-Learn for vectorization and similarity metrics. The pipeline uses Unicode normalization, the Thesaurus, and case folding to remove noise.

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Turning Your Data Swamp into Gold: A Developer’s Guide to NLP on Legacy Logs

Turning Your Data Swamp into Gold: A Developer’s Guide to NLP on Legacy Logs

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