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Google Summer of Code 2026 – Final Report

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Statistical Computing

R

Open Source Contribution

Hugging Face

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I am Anjani Nandan, and my Google Summer of Code (GSoC) journey has a lot of meaning for me.

Google Summer of Code 2026 – Progress Report (till Week 10)

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mlr3hf

caching

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R6 class

We are now in the final stage of the mlr3hf project, and almost everything planned for this week has been completed.

Google Summer of Code 2026 – Progress Report (till Week 6)

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mlr3hf

caching

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During the first six weeks of GSoC, I focused on building the core infrastructure for mlr3hf, with the primary goal of providing efficient dataset downloading, caching, and…

Building mlr3hf: Downloading and Exploring Hugging Face Datasets

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mlr3hf

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The mlr3hf package is currently under active development. Its goal is to make Hugging Face datasets easily accessible within the mlr3 ecosystem. Although the package is not…

GSoC 2026 Update: Progress Through Week 5

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mlr3hf

caching

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I am currently in Week 5 of Google Summer of Code 2026, working on the mlr3hf project. The objective of this project is to make datasets hosted on Hugging Face Hub easily…

Implementing caching and downloading

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As we are currently in the first week of GSoC, I started implementing the caching and dataset downloading infrastructure for mlr3hf.

finalising design for mlr3hf

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During the online meeting with our mentors,

talk with mentor

netlify

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I learned how to use Quarto together with Netlify for building and deploying websites.

Welcome To My Blog

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This is the first post in a Quarto blog. Welcome!