Week 1 & 2
Overview of thing learnt
Technical: #Python #webscraping #beautifulsoup
Tools: #python #github
Soft Skills: #communication with team leads, basic #research
Achievement highlights
- Built a scraper for the first time
- Collected data about tagging system from stack exchange
List of meetings/training attended
- Introduction to annotation tools. (watched on my own)
- Annotation tools and project structure
- Web Scraping Stack Exchange + Machine Learning Model Research
- Scrapper Submission + Machine Learning Model Research (watched on my own)
Goals for upcoming weeks
- submit scraper
- improve scraper based on suggestions
- start working on machine learning model research
Tasks Done
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Task : Research Annotation Tools
Hurdles : I had not joined the team when the assignment was given out, so I only had access to the recording explaining the task. Used some intuition and looked at the sample to understand how to conduct my own small research. -
Task : Building a scraper
Hurdles : This was my first time building a scraper, had to research a significant amount about how to use Python and BeautifulSoup to create a craper, used the sample code our team leads shared with us, unsure how to submit my scraper now