Replicating and extending the paper
We reproduced a 2023 Science Advances food-crisis study, then adapted it to Pakistan's local news.
DATA SYSTEMS · ML
Food Crisis Forecasting with Urdu News
I led a Pakistan-focused food-crisis forecasting pipeline built on Urdu news and district weather data, reproducing and extending a Science Advances study.
94% IPC prediction accuracy
90× faster RF training
162,653 Urdu articles
RF · OLS/Lasso · LogisticAT · LLMs
Comparing multiple model families
We compared tree-based, linear, ordinal, and language-model approaches for accuracy, speed, and interpretability.
From news to usable signals
We collected 162,653 Urdu articles, translated and classified them, then joined district weather data.
From replication to 94% accuracy
Accuracy climbed as local news gained weather signals and summarization split from forecasting.