Collection of short posts and short stories.
Part 1, part 2, and part 3 of “My First Predictive Analytics Project” can be found…at those URLs I just linked to. Ready to read about predictive analytics encoding problems? Good. Let’s go. If you’ve missed a few of these:…
Part 1 and part 2 of my first predictive analytics project can be found here. Read them? Cool. Let’s get into the origins of a market basket analysis, and learn a few terms… Market Basket Analysis originates from the supermarket…
Part 1 can be found here. Got it? Great. Time to talk about predictive analytics… or a market basket analysis. Not every problem lends itself to predictive analytics. Most of the time, the question a stakeholder is asking is: How…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This made a viral firestorm when it was published by Hesham Eissa and Lindsey Poulter during the pandemic. A beautiful data story about something close to every sugar monsters heart – ice cream. But what you might not know? Hesham…
It’s kinda cool to see some predictions come true. (No, this wasn’t mine. But the first time renewable energy prices dipped beneath coal energy prices in the early to mid 2010s, this day became inevitable.) We’re three months to the…
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…