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You've found the perfect data table on a website. You export it. You open it in Excel or load it into Pandas. And then the problems start. Numbers are strings: "1,234,567" instead of 1234567 Decimals are inconsistent: some use ., others use , Date...

Have you ever wondered how machines understand human language? Whether it's Siri answering your questions, Google predicting your search, or a chatbot helping you with customer support—it all starts with one crucial step: text preprocessing. Think of...
