Microsoft Reactor

Is your social media feed full of colourful squares? Are your friends constantly talking about the "best first word"? Welcome to 2022 the year of word games.

In this series we'll take a look at how these games work in terms of code. We'll use Python to build our own personal wordle-like games, drill down into the data to find out what really is the best first word, and see if we can teach a computer how to play better than a person!

We'll cover a range of coding topics from Python basics, to data science, to AI. So join us each week as we explore the world of words with code!

In the final episode of What in the World-le, we’ll see if AI can help us out with our word game solver, as we delve into the world of Natural Language Processing!

At the end of our previous episode we had a Wordle solver that choose words based on a scoring system we designed using text analytics. But, this doesn't take into account that not just any existing five word can be the correct answer. The correct answers are chosen from a smaller curated collection of well known words.

We'll take a look at how NLP could help us pick more well known words by using an Azure Machine Learning pipeline to convert our words to numerical representations. Using some clever calculations to compare our numerical word data we'll hopefully discover which words are well known, and which words are too obscure to ever be the answer!

Additional Learning:
https://aka.ms/ConvertwordtoVector

Your Speaker
Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. I’m also an avid word game player! Wordle, Obscurdle, Nerdle… I’m playing them all!

A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more!

Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.