Shama Barna

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    2020

    US Unemployment during Covid-19: Data Visualization

    There have been a lot of news about increased unemployment in the US due to the pandemic (i.e. covid 19) lately. So I decided to scrape some data from a couple of recently published reports on the websit of Bureau of Labor Statistics and do a quick exploratory data analysis. This short writeup outlines my finidings.

    2019

    Feature Engineering for Improving Model Prediction in Multiclass Text Classification

    I recently completed a project where I used NLP to predict characters of my favorite TV show Friends. I felt that some of the learnings from the project should be put together to highlight how simple feature engineering can help to take a simplified approach for ML modeling while improving the accuracy in multiclass text classification.

    Collaborative Filtering Based Book Recommendation Engine

    Book reading apps like Goodreads has personally helped me to find books I couldn’t put away and thus getting back to the habit of reading regularly again. In this project, I developed a collaborative filterning based book recommendation model using goodreads dataset that can suggest readers what books to read next.