On: The Federalist Papers: Author Identification Through K-Means Clustering

[blobbers]

btw, mostly seems to run on python2!

I believe you intended to run in python3 based on your last cell.

changing maketrans and translate will have it run in python2.7

    table = string.maketrans('', '')  # remove punctuation from each word
    stripped = [w.translate(table, string.punctuation) for w in tokens]

Did you read the book on nltk before writing this project? Curious about background skill development to undertake this project.

[jonluca → blobbers]

I've tried to transition fully to python3, but yet it should mostly work in python2.7 as well!

I did not read the book on nltk. I've been into information/coding theory recently (just finished Information by James Gleick) and thought I'd try my hand at something closer to NLP/ML. Very little background in the topic - I've taken a few courses in college and chatted with a few friends that know ML fairly well, but besides that I relied on blog posts and papers found on arxiv!