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I visited the AI conference in Groningen called aiGrunn. As an AI practitioner, I was curious to see what the local AI scene in Groningen is working on. The name of the conference comes from the city of Groningen where the event is hosted, “ai” also means egg in Gronings, so there are a lot of egg references.

Over the years I have given many presentations about how to use machine learning to classify text documents. I wanted to create a notebook that would serve as a template for such presentations, allowing me to quickly demonstrate the process of text classification using machine learning techniques. The problem of text classification is a common task in natural language processing, where the goal is to assign predefined categories to text documents based on their content. This notebook demonstrates how to classify documents from the 20 Newsgroups dataset using a decision tree classifier. We will preprocess the text data, extract features using a bag-of-words model, train a classifier, and evaluate its performance.

I visited the AI conference in Groningen called aigrunn. This article has some notes on the sessions I attended. These notes are primarily for my own reference and not very well formatted, sorry!

This year I visited aiGrunn. I got the tip to visit this event from a coworker. When looking online I immediately recognized the art style from PyGrunn. Overall the visual impression and style was very well executed. I really liked how they integrated the Groninger word for egg (ai) into the design and opening talk. The audience was asked to hold an imaginary egg and respond to a series of questions with “ai”. The final question was a very relieving and self-aware “who’s tired of these questions?”