January

Client meetings

  1. 17th January

Progress

Huge progress was made with the project. Previously our approach was to create and train a custom spaCy model, and so we worked on that at the start of the month. In our first attempt, the model was not so great at all the information we required(Admin 1, Admin 2, type of disaster). The model only ever tagged things as Admin 2, and did so incorrectly. The next streps was to continue refining and training the model.

However, after further discussion with our TA, we were advised to take a different approach to extracting data, as training a custom model would not be efficient at this stage in the project. We were directed towards alternative paths: using pre-trained model, fuzzy matching, edit distance, e.t.c.

11th January Meeting(with TA) minutes:

Following the meeting with our TAs, we then held a team meeting to reorganise our plan, in which we divided tasks, and discussed our elevator pitch. We continued to work on our website, monthly blogs and videos, ended our elevator pitch successfully, as well as the project, including front-end & back-end.

12th January Team Meeting minutes:

We the scheduled another meeting with our clients, where, as always, we updated them on our progress. We clarified some further details, and they provided us with some useful resources, and walked us through some useful code to help us meet the requirements.

17th January Client Meeting minutes:

Next steps