Last Week

Last Week

Last week at  LexisNexis for my Summer-17 internship and a glorious run culminates.

The plan for this week was to present at the final intern presentation at Raleigh, make some final code changes, push code for a pull request and sign off.

Day 1:

• Benchmarking tests checking to improve the performance of classification.
• Zero down on the source which can be parallelized.

Day 2:

• The HR team at LexisNexis Raleigh arranged for a session to practice and calibrate the talk before the final presentation.
• Made few changes on the slides and updated my resume adding the work done at LN Raleigh. Here it is. 

Day 3:

• Final presentation at LN Raleigh. The talk went well as it garnered some attention from folks in Raleigh. Here are the slides.
• Meeting and Greeting other interns and seniors at LexisNexis Raleigh.

Day 4:

• Final changes on parallelization based on the zero downs from Monday
• Documentation for gradient boosting

Day 5:

• Push code for commit based on some feedback from Dr Holt.
• Final acknowledgments for everyone.

Thanks to John Holt, Lorraine Chapman and the HR team at Alpharetta and Raleigh for giving me the opportunity and infrastructure to learn and showcase my talent. Cheers!!

Week 11

Week 11

The plan for this week was to present at "The Download" tech talk optimize classification. The plan was also to model data from Scopus.

Day 1:

• Model data from Scopus using the updated doc2vec technique.
• Results now give a common platform to query both legislative and Scopus documents.

Day 2:

• Practice Talk for the tech talk
• Present at the tech talk

Day 3 and 4:

• Probe classification to identify regions of parallelization
• Parallelize independent regressions in classification.

Day 5:

• Finish few training assignments.
• Prepare slides for final intern presentation.
• Work on standardization.