What you need for this learning path

Module 1:

We need the following software for this module:

Chapter number	Software required (with version)	Free/Proprietary	Download links to the software	Hardware specifications	OS required
1-5	Python/Anaconda NLTK	Free	https://www.python.org/ http://continuum.io/downloads http://www.nltk.org/	Common Unix Printing System	any
6	scikit-learn and gensim	Free	http://scikit-learn.org/stable/ https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/	Common Unix Printing System	any
7	Scrapy	Free	http://scrapy.org/	Common Unix Printing System	any
8	NumPy, SciPy, pandas, and matplotlib	Free	http://www.numpy.org/ http://www.scipy.org/ http://pandas.pydata.org/ http://matplotlib.org/	Common Unix Printing System	any
9	Twitter Python APIs and Facebook python APIs	Free	https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/twitter-libraries https://developers.facebook.com	Common Unix Printing System	any

Module 2:

You will need Python 3 and the listed Python packages. For this learning path, the author used Python 3.3.5. To install the packages, you can use pip (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/). The following is the list of the packages in requirements format with the version number used while writing this learning path:

• NLTK>=3.0a4
• pyenchant>=1.6.5
• lockfile>=0.9.1
• numpy>=1.8.0
• scipy>=0.13.0
• scikit-learn>=0.14.1
• execnet>=1.1
• pymongo>=2.6.3
• redis>=2.8.0
• lxml>=3.2.3
• beautifulsoup4>=4.3.2
• python-dateutil>=2.0
• charade>=1.0.3

You will also need NLTK-Trainer, which is available at https://github.com/japerk/nltk-trainer.

Beyond Python, there are a couple recipes that use MongoDB and Redis, both NoSQL databases. These can be downloaded at http://www.mongodb.org/ and http://redis.io/, respectively.

Module 3:

For all the chapters, Python 2.7 or 3.2+ is used. NLTK 3.0 must be installed either on 32-bit machine or 64-bit machine. Operating System required is Windows/Mac/Unix.