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Custom Named Entity Recognition (NER) model to detect bird names from user-generated texts on social media, using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques and the package Spacy.

September 1, 2022 / 3 Comments
Barred Cuckoo-Dove

I just wrote my life's longest blog post title! If you are reading this blog post, I would expect you to be either in the field of data science / NLP or interested in birding! If you are not, you [Read more...]

Posted in: Birding, Random notes Tagged: bird name detection from text, Bird Photography, Birding, indiaves, named entity recognition, natural language processing, NLP, social media text, user generated text

Manali; …of clouds & the hubbub over the white-tailed bird!

July 29, 2022 / Leave a Comment
A white morph male Indian Paradise Flycatcher with a long tail sits on a wire against a green background.

Manali | 2022 May There was an uncomfortable silence after we finished our first round of drinks. Manish broke it with, "P, do you know my friend photographed one exciting bird today?" P is the [Read more...]

Posted in: Birding

I saw peacocks at the Okhla Bird Sanctuary in Noida!

July 14, 2022 / 1 Comment
A male Indian Peafowl displays its magnificent fanned tail feathers, rich with iridescent green and blue eyespots.

Okhla Bird Sanctuary is on the bank of river Yamuna, in Noida. It is easily accessible from Delhi, obviously and if you like birds and are in Delhi, maybe give this place a quick visit! Guess what? I [Read more...]

Posted in: Birding Tagged: bird photograph, bird photography in delhi, birding in delhi, birding in okhla bird santuary, common birds, okhla bird sanctuary, peacock, resident birds

Talking birds to the 9-year-old niece!

July 12, 2022 / Leave a Comment
A fluffy yellow chicken chick stands on a light-colored blanket against a soft, blurred background.

Let me start with an apology! This blog post will have a significant amount of Bangla language in it. I wish I could translate all of them but that does not seem very probable! Also, I am not [Read more...]

Posted in: Birding, West Bengal Tagged: birding from terrace, birds bengali names, birds in local culture, local birds

I came back to Kolkata and have photographed birds!

March 30, 2022 / 3 Comments
Black-rumped flameback | Central Park Salt Lake | 29 March 2022

If you have read the blog post title, you very well know what I am going to talk about: Photographing birds in Kolkata! But first, let me answer a few mandatory questions to set your expectations. [Read more...]

Posted in: Birding, Birds in Central Park Kolkata, Random notes Tagged: purple sunbird, rohit dey, Souranil De, spotted dove, taiga fly catcher, thick billed green pigeon, violet cuckoo, yellow footed pigeon

I made a Wordle Assistant. Here’s how you can use it!

February 12, 2022 / Leave a Comment

Wordle Assistant - preliminary version. A lot of my friends on social media are playing Wordle! Wordle is a game where the users have to guess a fairly common 5 letter word in 6 attempts. Although [Read more...]

Posted in: Random notes Tagged: assistant, wordle

Magdeburg: Life beyond Studies (4): End of Pandemic and plants!

June 28, 2021 / Leave a Comment
morning in magdeburg

I did not really realize how quickly one year passed since I wrote this post! While the struggle to complete my never-ending last 6 credits is real even now, I started with my thesis at the [Read more...]

Posted in: Germany, Random notes, Student life at Magdeburg! Tagged: berlin, house plants, ignite ev, Madhu Thatikonda, Magdeburg, study in germany, study in magdeburg

Photographs of Snow in Magdeburg (2021)!

February 18, 2021 / 2 Comments
snow in magdeburg

How often do we, Indians, associate "foreign" with chilly winters and a lot of snow? I guess, pretty often. Maybe because we are conditioned by movies or by stories of our relatives who live abroad. I [Read more...]

Posted in: Germany, Student life at Magdeburg! Tagged: schnee magdeburg, Snow in Magdeburg, snow photographs in magdeburg, snowChallengeMD

The never-ending last 6 credits!

February 17, 2021 / 2 Comments
project team

Many of my friends, who are not well acquainted with doing masters in Germany, wonder why the programs, which are of 4 semesters, in theory, extend slightly beyond the time frame.. and in my case, by [Read more...]

Posted in: Germany, Student life at Magdeburg! Tagged: credits, HPI, thesis

Interviewing Mr. Stefan Haberkorn, the brain behind “Magdeburg in Light”!

September 8, 2020 / Leave a Comment
magdeburg in light

When our eyes dazzled at the spectacle that the "Festival of Lights, Berlin" [1, link at the end] was, little did we know that, during the 500th year of the completion of the Magdeburger Dom [Read more...]

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