We are planning to use Django since it is more feature-rich out of the box and will help us get our applications' backend up and running as soon as possible. Since we are planning to use Python as our primary language for our machine learning, using a python based REST API is going to be really beneficial for us in the early stages. Even though, both the developers on the team have not worked with Django, are confident that it will be able to provide us with a rich experience given the large community that exists. We might go over this decision as we make progress, and design software to accommodate that.