How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight schedule

1 · David Robinson · May 15, 2017, 5:30 a.m.
This weekend three friends (Chris Riederer, Nathan Gould, and my twin brother Dan) and I took part in the 2017 TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. We’d all been to several of these hackathons before, and we enjoy the challenge of building a usable application in a short timeframe while learning some new technologies along the way. Since three of the four of us are data scientists, we knew we were looking for a data-driven project, and since the best hackathon projects tend to be usable apps (as oppose...