# Machine Learning 3 - Lawrence Nguyen

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**Category:** Drug Discovery Using ML (CA) 2021\
**Created:** [June 15, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/machine-learning-3-lawrence-nguyen/8197 "2021-06-15T16:11:58Z")\
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Soft Skill: Journal Club - Week 1 was mostly about breaking down research papers and extracting information from them. Our group did a journal club and everyone broke down a different aspect to present to each other. This made the entire paper much easier to digest.

Achievements: First real team meetings! Successful communication!! Woowoo!!!

Goals: Figure out how to process a massive dataset efficiently

Tasks done: Read the paper → identified how tech has evolved since its publication → presented findings.

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**Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/machine-learning-3-lawrence-nguyen/8197/2 "2021-08-05T19:18:02Z")

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**Module 2**

In this module, we broke down how to parse through all the papers we need to in the database. I learned how to use the PubMed parser and how to leverage Dask to process the papers in parallel. I also understand how to use the Stanford parser to further break down words and sentences.

Achievements: Processed a small subset of papers using the PubMed parser and sentences using the Stanford parser

Goals: Apply knowledge of Dask to process the entire dataset of PubMed papers.