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Project Summary Organization: PEcAn Project Mentors: Mike Dietze (@dietze), Istem Fer(@istfer), Henri Kajasilta(@Henri kajasilta) Student: Nihar Sanda(@koolgax99) Project Link GSoC Official Project Link: Rejuvenating the PEcAn SDA and forecasting Dashboard Github Repository: New Forecasting Dashboard My Proposal This project is primarily focused on creating an interactive display of the carbon cycle forecast and data assimilation system of PEcAn. The main goal is to revive the site-specific R Shiny Forecasting and SDA dashboard that is no longer operational and broaden its scope to cover a larger number of sites. Additionally, the plan is to construct a new comprehensive dashboard that combines both SDA and Forecasting graphs. Moreover, the proposal also aims to establish an automated notification email system for the visualizations. ...

In this article we will be discussing the research paper on text classficiation using label names. The research paper is titled: Text Classification Using Label Names Only: A Language Model Self-Training Approach and it is published in the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2020. The research paper is available here So far, text classification has seen a huge succes in the NLP domain with the help of huge chunks of labelled data that is fed on to the models for training purposes. Recently, Semi Supervised learning has boomed using abundant unlabelled data and a smaller amount of labelled data. But when the number of classes are huge, it becomes a tedious task for the domain experts. ...

Project Summary Organization: PEcAn Project Mentors: Rob Kooper(@robkooper), Istem Fer(@istfer) Student: Nihar Sanda(https://koolgax99.github.io)(@koolgax99) My Proposal The project aims at improving and extending the current PEcAn REST API’s by making it more robust and dynamic from the user’s perspective. The security of the API’s will also be improved by introducing API KEY management system, rate limitng and input validation. Pre-GSoC Period This period was mainly focused on understanding the codebase of the PEcAn Project and the current state of the API’s. Then setting up the development environment and getting familiar with the codebase of the API’s. Then migrating the Swagger documentation to my own Postman collection. ...

The build up of the Camplus App had started since we got the office space for our startup at IIIT Dharwad’s R&D Lab 3. We had been selected in International Accelerator’s final round where top 6 startups make it and pitch in front of the Investment Committee. If selected, the startup has to move to Austin, TX, USA for 12 months to work on the startup full-time. We had a meeting at the residence of the Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Dharwad to discuss our options for continuing education at the Institute while staying in the US. In the same meet we pitched the startup deck and got office space, permission for testing on campus, sponsorship for hardware’s (if required) and permission to continue our course in online mode from the US. ...

What is #66daysofdata? #66DaysOfData was started by a famous youtuber named Ken Jee. For 66 days, everyday you have to learn something related to Data Science for a minimum of 5 minutes (5 minutes since one cannot be free for a long time everyday) and then share it on social media. This idea was taken up by the Data Science and Artifical Intelligence (DSAI) Society of IIIT Dharwad to start this initiative for the students of IIIT Dharwad. The society intends to make the students aware of the importance of data science and ML, and to help them in their journey of learning. ...

In this article we will be discussing the research paper on grammar error correction in morphologically rich languages especially in Russian Languages. The research paper is titled: The Grammar Error Correction in Morphologically Rich Languages: The Case of Russian and it is published in the Journal of Language Technology. The research paper is available here Rozovskaya and Roth 2019, uses a corpus of the Russian Learner Corpus of Academic Writing (RULEC, 560K words) which is written by students in United States learning Russian. ...

Welcome everyone, in this article we will be implementing the Flutter push notifications using the AWS Simple Notification Services (SNS). We will be using Firebase Cloud Messaging as the Service Provider for the Messaging. Creating a Flutter Project: Firstly we will create a new project and I will name it flutter_aws_notification. ...