To get the most out of this book

To get the most out of the book, run all the code provided in the book using Google Colab.

Software/Hardware requirements	Operating System
Google Colab / Python 3.x	Windows/macOS/Linux

Download the example code files

You can download the example code files for this book from GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Getting-Started-with-Google-BERT. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

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Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://static.packt-cdn.com/downloads/9781838821593_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "We will set maxlen to 100 and max_features to 100000."

A block of code is set as follows:

(x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test), preproc = \
text.texts_from_df(train_df = df,  
                   text_column = 'reviewText',
                   label_columns=['sentiment'], 
                   maxlen=100, 
                   max_features=100000, 
                   preprocess_mode='bert', 
                   val_pct=0.1)

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.