Charcoal

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  web interface

Inspiration

• Had 3 hours to build something, wanted to practice machine learning with sklearn
• Artificially generated Harry Potter book

What it does

• Trained on Nate the Snake (great story), given the previously typed characters the model predicts what the next character will be
• Can also generate a "story" given a starting seed and other parameters

How I built it

• Scikit learn for training the model, flask for web app
• Bootstrap on front end, jQuery/AJAX

Challenges I ran into

• I forgot how to use scikit learn (but luckily it is user friendly!)
• Started at 5am

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• Finished the project

What I learned

• How to set up a data pipeline with one hot encodings in scikit learn
• How to pass body and query variables in HTTP requests for flask

What's next for Charcoal

• Webcrawl sites for more training data yay

Built With

• bootstrap
• flask
• scikit-learn