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High-Level Notes on DS/ML Job Hunting, Part 1

This is my job search framework, the approach I follow every time I look for a new job. Part 1 covers mindset, preparation, finding jobs and applying, plus the things I do before every interview. Part 2, coming soon, dives deeper into each interview round: HR/recruiter, technical, architectural, take home, and cultural fit. The examples are DS/ML flavored, but most of this applies to any tech…

Satirical News Detection and Analysis in Albanian

I just published my Satirical News Detection and Analysis in Albanian Interactive Python Notebook on Kaggle!

Albanian Fake News Corpus Publication on Kaggle

This dataset was derived from the publication ‘Albanian fake news detection’ by ERCAN CANHASI, REXHEP SHIJAKU, and ERBLIN BERISHA. Their GitHub Repository can be found at this URL and their soon-to-be-published work may be found at this URL.

Albanian News Article Dataset Publication

Today, Majlinda Llugiqi and I released the first Albanian News Articles Dataset on Kaggle. It includes over 3 million articles from different Kosovo’s news pages, which can be used for category prediction and other various Machine Learning/NLP tasks.

Amount of daily new cases of COVID-19 split by municipality in Kosovo in the last 3 weeks

Considering the high rise in COVID-19 cases in our country I’ve decided to plot where the biggest hotspots currently are:

The rearrangement of the parliament after Kosovo’s 2019 elections

Considering most of the counting of votes has been done already, excluding the conditional votes and those by mail, one might already assume that the structure of the new parliament has been set.

Gender diversity in Kosovo’s Tertiary Education Sector

While staying on the subject of gender diversity, my last post was about gender diversity in high end academia positions. Here’s the gender diversity distribution for the students in Kosovo’s universities & colleges.

Gender diversity in Kosovo’s Academia

Recently I stumbled upon the post of Shqipdona, where she to summarize it, wasn’t granted an academic position at the Faculty of Medicine despite supposedly being a 10.0 out of 10.0 average grade student (probably the best average ever). Read her full post here: https://www.facebook.com/shqipdona.lahu/posts/3148538701827437

IPKO Superliga 19/20 Average Face by Team

Inspired by this Reddit post, I wanted to try it out on some more familiar faces as well.

Who’s more active? Facebook activity of the top five candidates for Kosovo’s upcoming parliamentary election

As the upcoming parliamentary elections of the 6th of October in Kosovo are coming closer, more and more of the election campaign is happening in social media as well. Considering the big internet penetration, this is definitely a worthwhile strategy.