The Ultimate Guide to Machine Learning & AI Datasets for 2025

Back when I first wrote this post in 2022, the AI landscape was a different place. Finding a good dataset felt like a treasure hunt, piecing together links from university pages, old GitHub repos, and forum posts. I started this list to keep track of the gems I stumbled upon during literature reviews or through … Read more

Understanding Brand Personality: How It Shapes Consumer Behavior and Brand Positioning

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In the era of digital marketing, it is becoming increasingly challenging for organizations to position their brand uniquely and differentiate from competitive product lines. In order to achieve that, organizations target a set of humanlike qualities (or a personality) across all their marketing campaigns. This is known as brand personality. In this article, we will … Read more

Bengali Datasets in 2025 for Named Entity Recognition and Sentiment Analysis

(Updated in 2025) A major limitation of current AI research is the overemphasis on English and the under-representation of the Bengali or Bangla language. Despite being the seventh most spoken language worldwide, Bengali remains a low-resource language in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This scarcity of resources poses significant challenges for developing robust … Read more

10 Essential Soft Skills Every Grad Student Must Sharpen for Research Success

In part 3 of the “Research for All” initiative, we will cover how to sharpen your soft skills related to the day-to-day activity as a grad student, research scholar, or even a research aspirant! Why is soft skills so important? Being a grad student isn’t just about mastering your research or technical skills—soft skills matter … Read more

What to do after you join MS Research at IIT Kharagpur

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Here, I plan to write about my MS (Research) journey at IIT Kharagpur, India. In this article, I will provide the complete details of all the administrative procedures and guidelines required throughout the course of pursuing an MS Research degree after you get accepted to the program. Important: I will also provide the CGPA calculation … Read more

How to apply for MS Research at IIT Kharagpur

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Article Summary This is the 2nd post in the blog series “MS Research Experience at CSE@IIT Kharagpur” where we cover how a student can apply (the application process), the eligibility criteria, how to prepare for the interview, and the final decision of actually pursuing it. In my previous article, I covered the Master of Science … Read more

Can we publish a paper without a conference?

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Yes, we can publish a paper without peer review from a conference. I can think of at least two alternatives: (i) non-commercial preprint servers on arXiv, bioarXiv, and (ii) journals or ACM/IEEE Transactions. You can read about the submission guidelines of arXiv here. arXiv is the most popular preprint server used in the machine learning … Read more

How I had secured a research associate position during my Ph.D. in India and moved to Germany?

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Research internships provide intensive exposure to reach academia. They may play a crucial role in making the tough decision of whether or not to pursue a career in research, particularly pursuing a Ph.D. degree. Looking back, I realize that my first internship at IIT Kharagpur for my Bachelor’s played a significant role. The selection process … Read more

Short Notes from CODS-COMAD 2020: Key Highlights and Insights

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The ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (CODS-COMAD 2020), which combined the 7th ACM IKDD CoDS and the 25th COMAD conferences, was held from January 5 to 7, 2020 at the prestigious Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India. This event brought together leading researchers, practitioners, and students from … Read more