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This week, I'll describe how ranking products can be problematic and show you a very quick and easy fix that many companies are unaware of. I’ll start with a common scenario that surprisingly few companies get right. And the worst…

Fake news is difficult to spot and for good reason - our abilities to fact check meet a dead-end when generated content is indistinguishable from fake content. This isn’t the future. It’s already here. Data scientists (and increasingly, anybody) can…

TikTok, like many apps before it, is designed to make it irresistible to its users. And it’s doing a great job of it. It was the number one most downloaded non-game app worldwide at the beginning of 2020, beating out…

With big institutions like Harvard and MIT holding online classes, an interesting question to be raised is what will become of our future data scientists who learn from home, physically distant from fellow students? If learning data science online is…

A lot has changed since I first started monitoring the Coronavirus pandemic on our website.  Countries like Italy and Spain that initially had big spikes in deaths eventually drove those numbers down and now show no or very few deaths…

Over the years, we’ve worked on many different types of A.I. projects, from building complex analytics engines from scratch to optimizing established systems.  This week I want to talk about startups and how they can achieve quick wins.  I’m not…

I was at a conference several years ago, sitting in the audience listening to a panel of data scientists from Netflix,  Amazon, and Spotify talk about the gains they generally see from their data science initiatives. It was a popular…

This week I changed things up a bit! I decided to record a video in my treehouse where I've been having quite a few meetings recently. It’s been really enjoyable to work from there given the summertime and it's been…

We’re finally here: Part five of my series on Deploying Predictive Models. Here’s what I’ve covered so far: How deployment fits into a proven 10-step data science methodology Why deployment is an important part of any organization’s data science roadmap…