A collection of AI/ML systems and experiments built by Chaitanya Tatipigari.

Navigating the Rent-versus-Buy Decision with Deep Learning

Navigating the Rent-versus-Buy Decision with Deep Learning

This project presents a deep learning framework for forecasting monthly home prices and rental costs at the ZIP-code level across the United States. We integrate Redfin property sales data with American Community Survey rental figures to produce localized, forward-looking insights on the rent-versus-buy decision. If you’d like to explore the full code and dataset, you can find everything here.

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Advancing sEMG Hand Signal Classification

Advancing sEMG Hand Signal Classification

Surface Electromyography (sEMG) captures the tiny electrical signals generated by our muscles when they contract. These signals are at the heart of many prosthetic control systems and human–computer interfaces. In this report, we explore two main strategies:

  • Windowed FFT-based feature extraction: breaking the signal into fixed-length segments and analyzing frequency components
  • Non-windowed modeling: feeding raw signal samples directly into machine learning models

Our goal is to understand how each approach balances accuracy and processing speed when classifying hand gestures.

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Clustering Subreddit Communities

Clustering Subreddit Communities

This project models Reddit user interactions to understand behavior and patterns. This project utilizes Spectral Clustering from the Graph Laplacian (using normalized cuts) to uncover local communities where users have more concentrated interactions. We discuss the importance of understanding user behavior, the results of this project, and areas of improvement for further research. If you’re interested, then let’s dive right in!

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