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MoreGlean This past weekend I attended the Morgan Stanley’s Code to Give Hackathon in Montreal. The main idea was to build a web application that could connect farmers, gleaners and food banks. Gleaners refers to a group of people who are willing to collect additional crops from the farmers to avoid food waste. The winning team would receiv...

Difficult but enjoyable nonetheless This semester I am taking 5 courses. I am already starting to feel the pressure of my workload slowly accumulating. However, a weird side of me is enjoying every moment of it. There is some sort of surreal feeling of being productive and getting some assignments and readings done. I cannot deny that the cou...

Scraping the SEC In the past few weeks, I have been exploring financial data made public by the SEC. The process is actually quite simple, using Python you can make requests to the already well-defined SEC REST API. Then using a parser such as BeautifulSoup you can extract any kind of data you wish from the endpoints. Finally, using a datafra...

Bye Bye Deloitte Yesterday was my last day at Deloitte for this summer. For the last month and a half, I joined a project as a non-billable support for the Consulting team. I was mostly using Powerpoint and Word. WCB AB project The client was Workers Compensation Board Alberta, a provincial workplace injury insurance provider. The project i...

Bibliomathica Today I will be discussing about my new personal project that I started a month ago with my fellow intern and friend Devan. You can find the source code under this respository. The details pertaining to the project will be displayed in the README of the code. This blog serves more as an overview of the process of building the s...

Getting started This is my story on how I got started contributing to Open Source projects such as Spark and Pandas. Initial Interest My first encounter with Open Source was finding out about popular frameworks and tools such as React, Kubernetes, and Tensorflow. Initially it did not make any sense to me. Why would big tech companies such a...

2 months in Today marks 60 days of my summer internship at Deloitte. I am especially enjoying the social events and the possibility of working at the office at my own convenience. In the past 2 months I have accomplished a few things which mostly involved learning about the fields of Data Engineering and Cloud Computing. For the sake of cla...

Welcome Hello world, this is my first Jekyll blog post. Today I embark on a new journey of discovery, frustation, learning and hopefully, enjoyment. I will be documenting interesting events in various areas of my life: Computer Science and Math, Music, Martial Arts and finally, Contributing to Open Source Software.