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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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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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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Algorithmia uses Algorithmic Intelligence to colorise your photos
Web app of the day: Algorithmia's auto-colorization service allows you to colorise black and white photos. The results are interesting with varying levels of success (see an example…
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Vega-Lite: producing complex visualisations with minimal amount of code
Here is an interesting visualisation library released just a few days ago from the University Washington Interactive Data Lab. Vega-Lite is a high-level visualization grammar. It provides a…
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What is it with Dutch sites and terrible cookie consent pop-ups?
This just happened in two Dutch sites in a row. Now, the need to conform with law is one thing. However, blocking access to content, and refreshing the…
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Medium is a mess
Apparently, +Medium's smart algorithms on what I should be reading next suggest that I should read my own posts. Seriously? In the screenshot, you can also witness the…
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Flybys: Strava replays an entire race
Available for some time in test mode, Flybys is a (now more prominently displayed) feature from Strava that allows you to replay multiple runs of users of the…
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How to add authorship information for Facebook, Pinterest and Google on your blog
Authorship markup for sites used to be an exciting term back when Google was using it in the search results but has since faded back as Google decided…
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