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Predicting Prices Based on Descriptions

This project was completed for the Mercari Price Suggestion Challenge. Mercari allows users to list items for sale, but it can be difficult to guess a realistic price in the situation. The objective of this challenge was to build a model that can suggest realistic prices for listed items based on their descriptions.

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A Newbie’s Guide to Open Source Software Contributions

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We all use open source software. Every time you take out your smartphone and connect to the internet you’re executing open source code, at every level from the kernel in your device’s operating system to the front end code your browser is rendering. Open source software is a powerful resource and a major driving force behind humanity’s rapid development of technology.

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PySwarms - Open Source Software Contribution

To learn more about collaborative development with version control systems as well as contributing to open source projects on GitHub, I made two contributions to the PySwarms project. PySwarms is a Python module for particle swarm optimization research.

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Teaching experience 1

Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

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Teaching experience 2

Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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