# Tushar\_432 - Machine Learning Pathway

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**Category:** Machine Learning Pipeline (NLP)Self-Assessments\
**Created:** [July 31, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](http://staging.stemaway.com/t/tushar-432-machine-learning-pathway/5434 "2020-07-31T15:49:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](http://staging.stemaway.com/t/tushar-432-machine-learning-pathway/5434/1 "2020-07-31T15:49:59Z")

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**Week 1 & 2**

**Overview of thing learnt**  
**Technical:** I learnt about Annotation tools, what are they and how do they work. I got to work on web scraper. Also, I learnt about the concept of Active Learning.  
**Tools:** I learnt how annotations tools work and how are they used in ML projects.  
**Soft Skills:** I got to work on a team project which helped me learn #teamwork, discussing ideas within members, effective #communication.

**Achievement highlights**

1. Learnt about concepts of active learning and annotation tools.
2. Learnt about tagtag, an annotation tool and created a report on it.
3. Scraped an AI website to obtain tags for posts.

**List of meetings/training attended**  
**Meetings** :

1. Team Introduction
2. Introduction to annotation tools.
3. Annotation tools and project structure
4. Web Scrapper Submission

**Goals for upcoming weeks**

1. Improve scrapper
2. Filter posts with specific tags.
3. Preprocess data

**Tasks Done**

1. **Task** : Learn about annotation tools and create a report on one.  
**Hurdles** : It is a new topic for me and I was unsure where to start and what points to take care of while choosing an annotation tool.  
Resources provided by team lead helped a lot in getting to know about annotation tools. Also, I took the help of the internet.
2. **Task** : Build a scrapper to scare AI forum.  
**Hurdles** : Was getting exceptions for some lines of code when using selenium.  
Used Beautiful soup instead for some part of scrapper which fasten and rectified the work.