Does spaCy require shuffling data before training?

[kanayer]

[ljvmiranda921]

Hi @kannaricci ,

Ideally you want to shuffle your data to ensure that the training batches are more representative of the dataset, and that it's not dependent on some order / index. If you set max_epochs>=0 during training, the training Corpus is shuffled automatically every epoch, so you don't need to worry about shuffling it by yourself :)

[kanayer]

Thank you very much for your answer!