Machine Learning in everyday applications
Machine Learning has been around for decades and is already used in a variety of applications such as spam filters, speech recognition and self-driving cars. It is defined…
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Pleasing our Lord Google: A work in progress
Improving the Core Web Vitals metrics does not seem to have any serious effect in incoming traffic from Google. Impressions are up 15% but clicks are more or…
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Hunting for restaurant locations in New York using Python
Introduction/Business Problem What follows is a presentation of a short data science task for the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate on Coursera (the related code is uploaded on…
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Your next music instrument: a text editor
In the video Sébastien Rannou is using Sonic Pi (free on Windows, Mac, Raspberry Pi) to reproduce Daft Punk's "Aerodynamic". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cydH_JAgSfg Unlike classical approaches to generate sound on…
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SWDchallenge: A low carb story
The theme of this month's Storytelling with Data challenge is "artisanal data". E.g. data collected personally by each participant, then analysed and visualised in a meaningful manner. I…
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I Googled for you: Natural Language Generation
Automating business news generation from quarterly earnings results. Not sure how, but I woke up to a scramble of googling on NLG. I got the impression out that…
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Font-pairing with Google Docs
Discovery of the day, filed under "Most Probably People Know About This For Years Now". One of the first parts of any design project is settling down on…
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Emulating bubbles and shadows
Storytelling with Data is a popular data visualisation blog by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. Every month Cole sets up a challenge for her readers. This month, the theme is…
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This future is cool
For someone that once had to limit his program's code to 32KB, it's quite amazing how easy it is do a video like this in about 5 minutes…
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11 Applications for your new Mac
After six years, I got to setup a new Mac. Having never done a format of the previous Mac and deciding not to migrate its installation, I found…
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Tracking reading: Goodreads to Beeminder
If you're into quantified self (e.g. digitally tracking your work, health, habits, whatever) you might have heard of Beeminder, which works as commitment device for following up on…
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Social Media 101: never use a photo of yourself as your cover photo
You already have the profile photo for that. I know that you're supposed to project yourself through you profile but try to find more ways to do this…
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