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In machine learning, it is crucial to have a large amount of data in order to achieve strong model performance. Using a method known as data augmentation, you can create more data for your machine learning project. Data augmentation is a collection of techniques that manage the process of automatically generating high-quality data on top of existing data. In computer vision applications, augmenting approaches are extremely prevalent.If you are working on a computer vision project (e.g Image classification), for instance, you can apply dozens of techniques to each image: shift, modify color intensities, scale, rotate, crop, etc. If you have a tiny dataset for your ML project or wish to reduce overfitting in your machine learning models, it is recommended that you may apply data augmentation approaches. “We don’t have better algorithms. We just have more data.”- Peter Norvig In the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP),the tremendous level of complexity that language possesses, makes it difficult to augment text. The process of augmenting text data is more challenging and not as straightforward as some might expect. In this article, you will learn how to use a library called to improve data for natural language processing. TextAttack What is TextAttack? TextAttack is a Python framework that was built by the for the purpose of conducting adversarial attacks, adversarial training, and data augmentation in natural language processing. TextAttack has components that can be utilized independently for a variety of basic natural language processing tasks, including sentence encoding, grammar checking, and word substitution. QData team TextAttack excels in performing the following three functions: Adversarial attacks (Python: , Bash: ). textattack.Attack textattack attack Data augmentation (Python: , Bash: ). textattack.augmentation.Augmenter textattack augment Model training (Python: , Bash: ). textattack.Trainer textattack train For this article, we will focus on how to use TexAttack library for Data augmentation. Note: How to Install TexAttack To use this library make sure you have python 3.6 or above in your environment. Run the following command to install textAttack. pip install textattack Once you have installed TexAttack, you can run it via python module or via command-line. Note: Data Augmentation Techniques for Text Data TextAttack library has various augmentation techniques that you can use in your NLP project to add more text data.Here are some of the techniques that you can apply: It augments words by swapping characters out for other characters. 1.CharSwapAugmenter charswap_aug = CharSwapAugmenter()
charswap_aug.augment(text) from textattack.augmentation import CharSwapAugmenter text = "I have enjoyed watching that movie, it was amazing." ['I have enjoyed watching that omvie, it was amazing.'] The Augmenter has swapped the word to . "movie" "omvie" It augments the text by deleting some parts of the text to make new text. 2.DeletionAugmenter deletion_aug = DeletionAugmenter()
deletion_aug.augment(text) from textattack.augmentation import DeletionAugmenter text = "I have enjoyed watching that movie, it was amazing." ['I have watching that, it was amazing.'] This method has removed the word to create a new augmented text. "enjoyed" This augments the text with a combination of different methods, such as 3.EasyDataAugmenter Randomly swap the positions of the words in the sentence. Randomly remove words from the sentence. Randomly insert a random synonym of a random word at a random location. Randomly replace words with their synonyms. eda_aug = EasyDataAugmenter()
eda_aug.augment(text) from textattack.augmentation import EasyDataAugmenter text = "I was billed twice for the service and this is the second time it has happened" ['I was billed twice for the service and this is the second time it has happen', 'I was billed twice for the one service and this is the second time it has happened', 'I billed twice for the service and this is the second time it has happened', 'I was billed twice for the this and service is the second time it has happened'] As you can see from the augmented texts, it show different results based on the methods applied.For example in the first augmented text, the last word has been modified from to . "happened" "happen" It can augment the text by replacing it with synonyms from the WordNet thesaurus. 4.WordNetAugmenter wordnet_aug = WordNetAugmenter()
wordnet_aug.augment(text) from textattack.augmentation import WordNetAugmenter text = "I was billed twice for the service and this is the second time it has happened" ['I was billed twice for the service and this is the second time it has pass'] This method has changed the word to in order to create a new augmented text. "happened" "pass" Importing transformations and constraints from the and t allows you to build your own augmenter from the ground up. The following is an illustration of the use of the to produce augmentations of a string: 5.Create your Own Augmenter textattack.transformations extattack.constraints WordSwapRandomCharacterDeletion algorithm my_transformation = CompositeTransformation([WordSwapRandomCharacterDeletion()]) augmenter.augment(text) from textattack.transformations import WordSwapRandomCharacterDeletion from textattack.transformations import CompositeTransformation from textattack.augmentation import Augmenter augmenter = Augmenter(transformation=my_transformation, transformations_per_example= 3 ) text = 'Siri became confused when we reused to follow her directions.' ['Siri became cnfused when we reused to follow her directions.', 'Siri became confused when e reused to follow her directions.', 'Siri became confused when we reused to follow hr directions.'] The output show different augmented texts after implementing the method.For example, in the first augmented text, the method randomly removes a character in the word WordSwapRandomCharacterDeletion "o" "confused". Conclusion In this article, you have learned the significance of data augmentation for your Machine Learning project. In addition, you have learnt how to execute data augmentation for textual data using the TextAttack library. To the best of my knowledge, these techniques are the most effective approaches available to do the task for your NLP project.Hopefully, they'll be of use to you in your work. You can also try to use other available augmentation techniques from TextAttack library such as: EmbeddingAugmenter CheckListAugmenter CLAREAugmenter If you learned something new or enjoyed reading this article, please share it so that others can see it. Until then, see you in the next post! You can also find me on Twitter . @Davis_McDavid

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Water your plants, get alarms, and analyze the data Having plants at home is a luxury that only households that  always count with someone's presence can enjoy. If you live alone and travel for a few days, you are likely to return home and find a mumified version of your beloved basil plant. One may argue: "Why not buy a timer on Home Depot for 5 bucks?". That's an excellent point, but why not make it overly complicated and learn a couple of things during the process? In this article I will show you how I created an IoT application that controls the irrigation of the plants in my house. This application independently irrigates 5 pots: 1 lemon tree, 2 passion fruit plants, 1 gardenia and 1 pot with herbs (basil, fennel and oregano). Because I'm planting these plants on the balcony of my apartment, I don't have running water, so I'm using a 40 liters tank. This tank has an ultrasonic sensor that monitors the volume and once the water level is below 30%, my Losant app sends me an email telling me to fill the tank. Well, to be honest, it sends an email to my wife, I hate filling that tank. Besides that, the system gets the current temperature and humidity here in Houston, TX and based on that increases the volume of irrigation water to compensate for the extra heat. I realized that I needed to implement this feature once I was done with the hardware, so I'm pulling the temp info from a free weather API. It's pretty cool that Losant allows you to integrate info from so many different sources. The hardware The general system diagram is shown below: The electronic enclosure The electronics are very simple, these are the components of this project: Microprocessor: Particle Photon (https://www.particle.io) Power supplies (5 and 12 Volts) 6 Relays. Caveat: I have used mechanical relays because I've also used a switching power supply. SSD relays can switch as fast as your switching power supply and mess up with the output. Wifi antenna The basic idea is the following: 5V feed the Particle Photon Photon's outputs connect to the low power side of the relays driving 12V to the valve solenoids upon activation. Similarly, the pump (underwater aquarium pump) is controlled by the Photon which drives AC current through its motor. Lets put everything together in a nice, presentable box. Remember, if you use a metallic enclosure like I did, you need to ground the box. I can't stress this enough! The Water Manifold I got the cheapest solenoid valves I could get from AliExpress.com, I think I paid 3 bucks for each. This is not bad at all, in the US they go for 10 bucks each. I also got some valves, tubing and an aquarium manifold. I've put everything together in a fancy plastic box. Note that the electrical connection from this wet module to the electronics in done by a multi-core cable and a connector. The final result is pretty neat. Firmware The Particle Photon, like Arduino, uses C++. It has a some conveniences like Particle.function() and Particle.publish(). These features allow the user to trigger functions from external events and publish local events respectively. In order to trigger functions remotely you'll need to declare them in the void setup. In my system I have 7 Particle functions, they are: tooHot: changes the value of the boolean variable hot to TRUE if the local temperature is greater than 30 Celsius. The data is retrieved from the weather API and the logic is executed in Losant. mode: activates the manual mode. pf1, lemon, herbs, gardenia, pf2: water each plant in manual mode. These Particle functions only accept one argument and it must be a String. Conversaly, you can publish events with Particle.publish(). Please check out my code below and next we will see how to create an interface to interact with the microcontroller. V1 = ; V2 = ; V3 = ; V4 = ; V5 = ; pump = ; trigger = ; echo = ; volume; hot = FALSE; manual_mode = FALSE; { Particle.function( , tooHot);
    Particle.function( , mode);
    Particle.function( , pf1);
    Particle.function( , lemon);
    Particle.function( , herbs);
    Particle.function( , gardenia);
    Particle.function( , pf2); pinMode(trigger, OUTPUT);
    pinMode(echo, INPUT);
    pinMode(pump, OUTPUT);
    pinMode(V1, OUTPUT);
    pinMode(V2, OUTPUT);
    pinMode(V3, OUTPUT);
    pinMode(V4, OUTPUT);
    pinMode(V5, OUTPUT); Time.zone( ); digitalWrite(V1, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(V2, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(V3, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(V4, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(V5, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(pump, HIGH);
    
    Serial.begin( );
} { STARTUP(WiFi.selectAntenna(ANT_EXTERNAL)); (manual_mode == FALSE){ (Time.hour() == && Time.minute() == ){
            auto_irrigation();
        } (hot == TRUE){ (Time.hour() == && Time.minute() == ){
                auto_irrigation();
            }
        }
    } ((Time.hour() == || Time.hour() == ) && Time.minute() == ){
        volume = measure_level();
        Particle.publish( , (String)volume);
    }

} {
    digitalWrite(V1, LOW);
    digitalWrite(pump, LOW);
    delay( );
                
    digitalWrite(V1, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(V2, LOW);
    delay( );
                
    digitalWrite(V2, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(V3, LOW);
    delay( );
                
    digitalWrite(V3, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(V4, LOW);
    delay( );
                
    digitalWrite(V4, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(V5, LOW);
    delay( );
                
    digitalWrite(V5, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(pump, HIGH);
} { result; duration = ; ( i = ; i <= ; i++)
    {
        digitalWrite(trigger, LOW);
        delayMicroseconds( );
        digitalWrite(trigger, HIGH);
        delayMicroseconds( );
        digitalWrite(trigger, LOW);
        duration = duration + (pulseIn(echo, HIGH)/ );
        delay( );
    }
    result = *( -duration* )/ ; result;
} { (command == ){
        hot = TRUE; ;
    } (command == ){
        hot = FALSE; ;
    } { ;
    }
    
} { (command == ){
        manual_mode = TRUE; ;
    } (command == ){
        manual_mode = FALSE; ;
    } { ;
    }
} { (manual_mode == TRUE){ (command == ){
            digitalWrite(V1, LOW);
            digitalWrite(pump, LOW);
        } (command == ){
            digitalWrite(V1, HIGH);
            digitalWrite(pump, HIGH);
        }
    }
} { (manual_mode == TRUE){ (command == ){
            digitalWrite(V2, LOW);
            digitalWrite(pump, LOW);
        } (command == ){
            digitalWrite(V2, HIGH);
            digitalWrite(pump, HIGH);
        }
    }
} { (manual_mode == TRUE){ (command == ){
            digitalWrite(V3, LOW);
            digitalWrite(pump, LOW);
        } (command == ){
            digitalWrite(V3, HIGH);
            digitalWrite(pump, HIGH);
        }
    }
} { (manual_mode == TRUE){ (command == ){
            digitalWrite(V4, LOW);
            digitalWrite(pump, LOW);
        } (command == ){
            digitalWrite(V4, HIGH);
            digitalWrite(pump, HIGH);
        }
    }
} { (manual_mode == TRUE){ (command == ){
            digitalWrite(V5, LOW);
            digitalWrite(pump, LOW);
        } (command == ){
            digitalWrite(V5, HIGH);
            digitalWrite(pump, HIGH);
        }
    }
} // ports to control and read hardware const int 0 const int 1 const int 2 const int 3 const int 4 const int 5 const int 6 const int 7 // tank volume measurement int // temperature alarm bool // manual mode bool void setup () // declaring particle functions "tooHot" "mode" "pf1" "lemon" "herbs" "gardenia" "pf2" // defining i/o's // setting time zone -5 // initiallizing actuators 9600 void loop () // selects the u.FL antenna if // morning irrigation schedule if 7 00 // if it's warm, the system water the plants again at 3pm if if 15 00 // measure water tank level twice a day if 8 16 00 "tank_volume" /* FUNCTIONS */ // irrigation int auto_irrigation () 80000 50000 80000 40000 40000 // measure the tank level, averages 100 measurements int measure_level () int long 0 for int 0 100 2 10 100 50 100 25.4 0.017 25.4 return /* this function changes the boolean value of the variable hot and its logic is executed on Losant. 
the weather api provides the temp and if greater than 30C, it will trigger toohot. */ int tooHot (String command) if "yes" return 1 else if "no" return 0 else return -1 // this function changes the logic value of manual_mode and it's triggered on losant. int mode (String command) if "true" return 1 else if "false" return 0 else return -1 // passion fruit 1 manual irrigation int pf1 (String command) if if "true" else if "false" // lemon tree manual irrigation int lemon (String command) if if "true" else if "false" // herbs manual irrigation int herbs (String command) if if "true" else if "false" // gardenia manual irrigation int gardenia (String command) if if "true" else if "false" // passion fruit 2 manual irrigation int pf2 (String command) if if "true" else if "false" IoT Workflow Receive an email notification Losant is an IoT platform that allows the developper to create a workflow logic that will receive and trigger events. It's beyond the scope of this article to provide a detailed Losant tutorial, however I'll explain the intuition behind it and give you references in case you decide to develop your own IoT app. Let's start checking how to implement an email notification to alert the user that the water level is getting low. First you'll need to create a device and a particle integration in Losant. Upon doing that, go to your workflow and build the following block logic. Let's examinate how to set the nodes to implement this logic. This node establishes communication with your device. Click on it and select the integration you have created. 1. Particle: Remember Particle.publish()? We will set up this node to listen for events published from the Photon. In order to do that, we need to define the structure of the payload with some javascript. The event published by the microcontroller will be transmitted in a json package, more precisely inside data. In our case, the variable being passed is 'volume', so we can retrieve this data by accessing 'data.volume'. 2. Function: Click on the function node and add the following code. parts = payload.data.data.split( );
payload.data.volume = parts[ ]; var ':' 0 : This node will attribude the data from you payload to a device and the attributed you've defined upon its creation. This will allow us to create a dashboard later. 3. Device Get Select the query method to: 'Match all tags query' Set 'Key Templates' to 'particle_device_id' and 'Value Templates' to '{{ data.coreid }}' Set 'Result Path' to 'device_to_update' : Stores the state in a device attribute. 4. Device State 'Device ID JSON path' = 'device_to_update.id' 'Attribute' = '{{data.volume}}' This block allows you to debug and understand what is going on with you payload. You can trigger events from the workflow and see how your payload is being constructed. This block is not necessary to make the app work. 5. Debug: Executes a conditional logic. Remember you'll need to refer to the variable according to the way that your JSON payload was defined, in our case {{data.volume}}. 6. Conditional: This one is pretty self explanatory. Upon the activation of the condition previously defined, this block will send an email. 7. Email: To summarize, we will retrieve the variable 'volume' by setting up a logic to listen to the events being published from the IoT microcontroller. Upon getting this data from a JSON package we will compare it to a threshold and if the value is less than 30% of the total volume, an email will be sent asking the user to re-fill the tank. Get local temperature from an API First you'll need an API key, go to and create an account. You can use their free plan for this project. If I'm not wrong, the free plan includes 1000 api calls a day. If you're not in the agricultural business, this should be more than enough. https://openweathermap.org/api Build the following workflow: The http block is responsible from calling the API, let's check on how to set it up. In the 'URL template', add the following: http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q='YOUR CITY'&appid='YOUR API KEY' The 'request method' should be set to GET and the API response should be stored in the 'Payload path to store response' field. Set it to 'working.weather'. Set the timer to call the API every hour so you don't exceed the daily limit of calls. Now your payload should look like this: Now the temperature should be accessible through: {{working.weather.body.main.temp}} Triggering Functions Remotely Now it's time to finally trigger our Particle functions previously defined in our firmware. Let's start by building a workflow: Basically we have a 'Virtual Button' node triggering a 'Particle Call' node for each one of our remotely operated functions. In the 'Particle Call' node, we need to: Inform the node which firmware function we will call by adding its name to the field 'Function Name'. Tell the node what argument we will be passing by specifying it directly or adding a payload path. We will pass a payload path since we will be using a toggle switch to activate the system. We will create variables for each plant and add them to the payload. They will be located at the root data, so they will be accessible as data.pf1, data.lemon, data.herbs, data.gardenia and data.pf2. Now, we need to create an interface to trigger this workflow we've just created. Go to Dashboard and add an input control. Add toggles and buttons like so: The toggle state is sent via payload to the microcontroller upon triggering the workflow via the button. Set the button like so (note, the value between the double brackets should be the same of your toggle, my toggle is also named 'lemon'). Do the same for all the other inputs and test it: Data visualization Add some charts and link then to your devices attributes. Conclusion I hope you guys enjoyed this article. This project has several moving parts and I know that I have covered some of them too fast without providing the level of detail that the reader deserves, for that reason do not hesitate to contact me if you'd like to get more info or simply ask a question. Moving forward I'd like to add a strain gauge to monitor the weight of the plant. Over 98% of the mass of plants comes from the air (interesting fact isn't it?). That would be an interesting step into starting optimizing fertilization and irrigation. If you are interested in learning more about Losant, check this tutorial out: https://www.losant.com/blog/how-to-integrate-particle-with-losant See y'all soon!

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