A not-quite-buzzfeed quiz to check your biases; an intro to critical algorithm studies; and ideas for enabling ethical developers. — About once a month over on Substack, I compile a handful of the most interesting and useful things I’ve shared via Twitter on a specific theme into a short article about that topic. March is Women’s History Month, so this twitter Resources Roundup is an especially important one. That’s why…

A beginners’ guide to working through complex SQL questions — and understanding the answers — If you’re reading this, you’re probably using HackerRank to learn SQL or prep for a coding interview. I did this too, but a lot of HackerRank solutions out there confused me more than they helped. So I did what any self-respecting data scientist would do: I memorised the answers, and…

Practical lessons from being let go, and how you can apply them too. So you got fired. Or made redundant. Potato, potata, it probably stings as much either way. This just happened to me, too. My employer went into financial survival mode, and my department had to go. So I…

A practical introduction to a technology you use every day. — Ever wondered how Google Translate’s ‘detect language’ feature works? Of course you didn’t, you had better things to do. But I went looking, and couldn’t find the answer (even though I’ve literally written a book on Natural Language Processing (NLP)). It’s Google’s secret sauce. So today, I’ll instead show you…

Artificial Intelligence: it’s a topic surrounded by hype, hope, pessimism, and a healthy dose of confusion. Many people have many questions, as I have learned through discussions within my own personal circle. …

One of the most remarkable things I learned during my studies in Computational Linguistics was that we still don’t know how language is processed in the brain. We know that an average human has around 80,000 words in their vocabulary, and that somehow, when we speak, our brains are able…

In my last post, I introduced one of the biggest trends in AI-driven marketing: personalisation. I recommend you check out the full post, but in a nutshell: marketers have always tried to segment customer types and determine what messaging they would prefer, but in the past, the segmentation was coarse…

Across the entire customer journey, AI is helping marketers provide more assistive, enjoyable experiences for shoppers and improving performance with it: from one-to-one messaging that doesn’t sound like spam, to dynamic website design that adapts to individual users, and even retail stores that recognise and welcome their visitors. In part…