Browser extensions are the secret weapons that most hackers and developers keep in their arsenal to be more productive. Since a good portion of machine learners use Chrome (given chrome’s massive market share), we’ve compiled a list of must-have Chrome extensions for machine learning engineers and data scientists.
Arxiv Vanity
Arxiv is used daily by millions of engineers and researchers in the ML industry to read the latest papers. However, it is often dreadful to read it in a pdf. Arxiv Vanity converts the paper into HTML so that it is easy to read and absorb the information!
Click here to install the Arxiv Vanity Chrome Extension
As you can see, a normally hard to read pdf where you’re straining your eyes, such as this one:
is made easy to read thanks to Arxiv Vanity.
Code Implementation Finder for ML/AI Papers
This browser extension by CatalyzeX automatically shows you the code for whatever machine learning/artificial intelligence research paper you’re looking for across the web (Google, Twitter, Arxiv, Google Scholar, etc.)
Click here to install the CatalyzeX Chrome extension
Click here to install the CatalyzeX Firefox extension
Open in Colab
Machine learners want to often jump right into the code implementation and start experimenting. This extension allows you to do just that. Just find the .ipynb file in a GitHub repository of your choice and click on the extension icon!
For example, check out this GitHub repository about demo image classification
Go on this demo about image classification and then click on the ‘open in colab’ icon in the extension toolbar! It will open it right in the colab environment so that you can start experimenting with it!
Click here to install the Open in Colab Chrome Extension
This extension has over 20,000 installs at the moment!
Instant Data Scraper
Machine learners rely on good quality data for training their models. This extension makes this process a whole lot easier. Check out the video demo where it extracts all the search results!
A machine learning engineer specializing in NLP can use this extract reviews and ratings from a given site like yelp. Further, comments and likes can also be extracted which can be super helpful to those working on sentiment analysis.
Click here to install the Instant Data Scraper Chrome Extension
For example, The extension can scrape the list of all BBQ restaurants in Omaha, NE from Yellowpages.com, and give you the data in an excel sheet.
Or if you’re trying to scrape listings of wheel sellers in the Bay Area from Craigslist.
Hope you find these as helpful as we do!