Short Stories

Collection of short posts and short stories.

Predicive Analytics Results Table for Market Basket Analysis.

Part 1 of 7 – My First Predictive Analytics Project

Most business problems I’ve encountered in my career haven’t required predictive analytics or machine learning. As a Data Journalist –> Data Analyst –> Data Storyteller (or however the market wants to bucket me – I just like to solve data…

Can AI save us from Conspiracy Theories?

Conspiracy theories. Love em. Hate em. (As a scientifically trained person, I kinda hate them). However you feel about them, they’re here to stay. Or are they? A study directed a Chat GPT-4 bot to converse with conspiracy theorists about…

Nadieh Bremeh’s Space Wars

Continuing the subject of space travel and satellites… Here is Nadieh Bremeh’s visualisation of all the satellite’s in space, commissioned by Scientific American in 2020. Nadieh started out as an astronomer before wanting to flex her creative muscles, becoming a…

Cost of Space Travel

Source: It was winter 2009 when I attended the UK Space Conference. Scoring a discounted ticket as a student, I dutifully attended the science lectures and presentations. I got bored. Don’t get me wrong. The science was cool. But…

Shift in “supertalls”

Once upon a time the tallest skyscraper in the world was the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan. Now – as many of you know, it’s the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (featuring in cinematic masterpieces such as Fast & Furious…