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An active learning pipeline for identifying whales in high-resolution satellite imagery.

Is microsoft/whales beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from first-time contributors to microsoft/whales to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
39
Forks
12
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
1
Avg merge
5h 42m
Merged PRs (30d)
3
Dominant language
Jupyter Notebook
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
Code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed

How to contribute to microsoft/whales

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  4. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

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