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TIL my simple chatbot idea needed way more training data than I thought
I wanted to make a bot that could answer questions about my town's bus schedule, figured it would take a weekend. I mean, the info is all online, right? I spent two whole weeks just cleaning and formatting the timetable data from the city's PDFs before the model could even start learning the routes. Has anyone else had a project balloon in time because of data prep?
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willow_ellis7d ago
Tell me about it. Data prep always takes ten times longer than you think it will.
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the_uma7d ago
Right? @willow_ellis, what part of the prep always ends up being the biggest time sink for you?
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