ChemParka

Everything is at our fingertips. From transportation to food, stock market to cryptocurrencies, news to social media. We are living in an interconnected world where information about the world is available to us in just a few clicks/touches away. But how connected are we with ourselves? My interest in chatbot started with Woebot, a mental health chatbot study conducted by Standford University (Fitzpatrick, Darcy, & Vierhile, 2017). The possibility of deploying a bot that could interact with users to monitor one's mood on needs basis opens up a whole new avenue of research for me. The complexity of programming a bot and implementing Natural Language Processing (NLP) though were very daunting until I came across  this article . This is not a paid advertisement Snatchbot  is an online platform that allows users to create and deploy chatbots on several 'channels' or applications. It is code-free, which means I do not have to worry about coding the bot from scratch, ...

A month ago, I took up a project to analyse images in textbooks. It sounded like a good idea back then because I was interested in learning Google Vision api and computer vision in general and was looking for a project to implement it. I later found out that the api, specifically the label images function, labels images based on context but not the content of the images. My first diagnosis of the problem was that I needed to extract the images from the documents and analyse them separately using the api. Which was naive in hindsight but alas that was the birth of this side project. This for instance was labelled as friendship (77%) but what I needed was to label the five humans and the one cake. I later found out though that it still doesn't work and is currently working on a different method using  object detection Initially, I was resistant to embark on this project mainly because I could not find a way to do in R. I came across  this solutio...