Meetups (Next Meetup : 9th June 2018)


May Meetup Summary

Agenda

  • Heuristic Search - Saptarsi, Abritti
  • Update on Social Influence App - Rashika, Allama, Rajib, Susanto
  • Update on ML based Agri - Sourav, Abritti
  • Short update on
    • Text Classification Progress - Sourav M
    • Portfolio Organizer - Abhra, Arup

Note from Dr. Saptarsi Goswami

  • Saptarsi briefed about general search algorithms , their philosophy and taxonomy
  • There was a discussion by Abriti and Sourav on their work on ML based Agri applications. One of the criticism by the audience was robustness of image acquisition and actual implementation to benefit farmers, we intend to submit a conference paper by 15th May
  • Allama updated about the FB App and we intend to close this by next 2 weeks
  • Abhra updated about the partial correlation based portfolio , we intend to submit a conference paper by 2 weeks
  • Sourav M's paper on relevant tweets , Saptarsi to complete in next 2 weeks
  • As per Dr. Soumya's suggestion, we will do the meetup on every second Saturday from now on.
  • Some ideas suggested were crowd based recommendation and food quality monitor
  • Padmanava to set up a gitHub page
  • Warm welcome to Chanda, Pallavi , Allama, Sramana. Ayan for joining in


April Meetup Summary

Agenda

  • Linear regression from ISLR discussion by Saptarsi
  • Update of the stock market work by Abhra and Arup
  • 12:30 - 12:50 Update of the 'text' work by Sourav and Asish
  • Other free flowing unstructured discussions :)

Note from Dr. Saptarsi Goswami

  • Thank you for taking your timeout today we have around 21 participants, so here is a summary.
  • There was an at length discussion on security aspects of data science projects and may be we will invite someone expert from this domain
  • I tried to summarize some of the issues on linear regression, how t-test, p-value etc. plays a role and how linear regression can be extended by bringing nonlinear items and interactions.
  • Sourav updated on his work , on how he has improved class specific recall and precision by using SMOTE , then wordnet and feedback,
  • I request you to check the 30 odd ones , why they are still not getting identified
  • Abhra presented his work , on doing a correlation analysis for designing an optimal portfolio, There were some excellent suggestion from Dr. Sen on considering oil price , exchange price and some excellent suggestion from Mainak
  • As a next step we are planning to form at least three work groups in application of a ) ML in Agri b) Computer Vision c) No SQL


March Meetup Summary

Note from Dr. Saptarsi Goswami

  • Thanks all for joining and participating. So. here are few of the take away or actionable
  • Text Mining :-- Asish to team up with Sourav and Saptarsi.
  • Computer Vision :-- Saptarsi to connect with Padanava and the CU students
  • Bio Informatics: - Dibendu to give a short presentation next meetup and then some small PoCs can be started.
  • No SQL : Abhi to deliver NO SQL Lecture and then help the students to POC on Mongo. Saptarsi to Co ordinate.
  • Stock Market: -- Abhra and Amit to formalize the problem statement. Ahsan can join. Padmanav to share his understanding on Hedge.
  • Padmanava to help setup repository and Saptarsi/ Dibyendyu to take a small theoretical topic for each meetup.
  • Ananya and Abritti to present their research ideas.