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      I am Kaushik Nishtala. I love crunching numbers and playing with data.

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  • Coming Soon School Budgets Automation

    Data science isn't just for predicting ad-clicks-it's also useful for social impact! This post is a case study from a machine learning competition on DrivenData. I aim to explore a problem related to school district budgeting. By building a model to automatically classify items in a school's budget, it makes it easier and faster for schools to compare their spending with other schools. I'll begin by building a baseline model that is a simple, first-pass approach by processing budget data using NLP and then gradually improve upon the performance of the model using winner tactics.

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