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Alex Pedersen co-founded Theory Jar with Julia Krolik, which later became the not-for-profit Art the Science.

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Theory Jar, September 01, 2017

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The aim of Theory Jar was to translate scientific jargon into lay language. I was responsible for scraping text to build a corpora, and processed this using Python's Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK). With this accomplished, a mySQL database was connected to a web application that could accept any…

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