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A popular running joke about software engineers (specifically coders) in India is about how there are times in their lives where he/she will have to work the entire night ("night-out") to write code. One of my few night-out was last Saturday night (Sunday morning).Yi and I, along with a couple of our friends participated in the Columbia Data Science Society's annual data science hackathon which was held from Saturday (21st) evening to Sunday (22nd) afternoonThe event started at around 7:00PM on Saturday where we were welcomed to the hackathon and a co...

As part of my review research for my first project on Fall 2019, "Auto-tagging of TCR records", I began to find a distinct pattern in the papers that I read. Most of the papers hinted that the machine learning algorithms that they developed to tag blogs, research papers, news links and other textual data performed better than the tags provided by the authors of those documents. I am writing this blog post to explain about document tagging, autotagging and how claim mentioned above might be true in a senseTaggingWikipedia [1] de...