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My Contributions During Hacktoberfest 2018 I got involved with open-source development this September in order to gain valuable experience working with projects that are relevant to me as a software developer and explore the open-source community as a whole. I was fortunate because a month after I started, I learned about Hacktoberfest, which targets new contributors like me and helps them get involved with projects on Github.  Throughout the month of October, my goal was to finish five pull requests that targeted different aspects of open-source. I've achieved my goal with a total of six pull requests (although I consider the 4th and 5th pull request as one because they essentially do the same thing on different directories). In addition to completing these pull requests, I made sure to write blogs about my progress. Summary of Contributions AlgoWiki AlgoWiki is a medium sized project, which focuses on collecting resources surrounding the field of artifici...

Contributing to Pandas Pandas is a famous open-source library for Python that provides high-performance and easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools. It is often used in the machine learning field. Pandas project has over 1,300 contributors and 18,000 commits, which makes it one of the biggest open-source projects related to the machine learning field. Hacktoberfest 2018 This year I am participating in Hacktoberfest. Throughout the month of October, I will need to make 5 pull requests with contributions to one or more projects on Github. This is my fourth contribution to Hacktoberfest and I came across the Pandas project on Github for this contribution.  Throughout this Hacktoberfest I'm trying to find different ways to contribute to the open-source community. I've already explored non-code contributions and how they can be useful. I also explored contributing to start up project. Now, in order to gain experience with working on a large open-source proj...