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By profession I’m a SharePoint Architect working for a Financial Services company. Sometime around Jan 2020, I started getting to know about Machine Learning. The huge opportunities which lies ahead for Machine Learning to solve business problems created a lot of interest in me. I have started this journey in the year 2020 and I’m using this platform to share my experience and learning with fellow non-ML developers. If you want to know how it all started, do check out my first post “The ML bug bit me!”.

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