Talks and presentations

An introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks

September 08, 2018

Talk, PyData Gandhinagar, IIT Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, India

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been at the forefront of research on generative models in the last couple of years. GANs have a diverse pool of application involving image generation, image processing, data generation for visual recognition. GANs’ potential is huge because they can learn to mimic any distribution of data. This talk describes the core idea behind a GAN and discuss a few applications.

Web Scraping in Python

June 08, 2018

Tutorial, Technical Council, IITGN, Gandhinagar, India

Web scraping is a handy yet an often overlook aspect of data work. Using BeautifulSoup and preliminary knowledge of HTML, we can automate information extraction tasks from many webpages. In this tutorial we discuss the basics of web scraping and build python programs to extract and answer questions by scraping the web.