Welcome!

My name is Lovkush Agarwal. I recently decided to change careers and become a data scientist. Following David Robinson’s’ advice, I decided to create this blog, to record my progress, learning and projects.

Posts

• Stochastic Gradient Descent, Part I, Gradient descent on linear, quadratic and sinusoidal data

  After seeing the visualisations of gradient descent in the FastAI course, I thought I'd try to create my own. I start by looking at gradient descent applied to linear, quadratic and sinusoidal data.

  Sep 10, 2020

• FastAI Course, Part III, Frustrations with creating an image classifier

  I create my first image classifier and create a 'web app' out of it. Though I succeeded in the end, this project was particularly frustrating.

  Sep 8, 2020

• Analysing the movies I've watched, Part V, Data visualisation II

  I end the series by showing the plots created by joining my movie watching data with the imdb database.

  Sep 2, 2020

• FastAI Course, Part II, Lesson 1 and sentiment analysis

  I play around a little with FastAI's sentiment analysis model at the end of lesson 1.

  Aug 30, 2020

• Increasing the resolution of an image using an SRGAN

  I have my first experience of image processing, and of using a pre-trained network.

  Aug 28, 2020

• Analysing the movies I've watched, Part IV, Data visualisation

  I produce various charts based on the data collected in previous blog posts. I only look at the data without joining with imdb data - that will be done next time.

  Aug 24, 2020

• Analysing the movies I've watched, Part III, Joining the tables

  I try to join the tables, but things are not so smooth.

  Aug 19, 2020

• The CAP Theorem's never ending rabbit hole

  I describe the rabbit hole I ended up in by trying to learn about the CAP Theorem.

  Aug 14, 2020

• FastAI Course, Part I, Lessons 1 and 2

  I started the Deep Learning course by FastAI. I describe my initial impressions here.

  Aug 9, 2020

• Web Scraping for STEP past papers and solutions, Part II, a bug

  There was a major bug in my first attempt at scraping!

  Aug 6, 2020

• Analysing the movies I've watched, Part II, Data cleaning

  I briefly describe the tidying that I did.

  Aug 3, 2020

• Analysing the movies I've watched, Part I, Data collection

  I start a new project, analysing my hand-made movie watching records since 2008.

  Aug 2, 2020

• Contributing to Darts by Unit8

  I describe my first ever open-source contribution!

  Jul 30, 2020

• Web Scraping for STEP past papers and solutions

  I briefly describe my first experience web scraping, for STEP past papers and solutions.

  Jul 27, 2020

• EuroPython Conference 2020, Summary

  I tidy up the notes created in the previous two entries of the series, to make it more coherent and to highlight key ideas and lessons.

  Jul 26, 2020