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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....

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....

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....

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....

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....