Category: Talk
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Guiding the Evolution of Data Mesh with Fitness Functions
I presented this webinar with Zhamak Dehghani – see the recording Guiding the Evolution of Data Mesh with Fitness Functions. There was great engagement with the topic and we captured some questions and further thoughts on this mini-blog post, published a little later. This presentation brought together the idea of architectural fitness functions from the…
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Melbourne Data Visualisation Meetup – October 2020
I presented at the Melbourne Data Visualisation Meetup along with Ned Letcher, who gave an awesome overview of Python Libraries for Building Data Apps (an analytics superpower). The topic was Data Visualisation – Good for Business. Data Visualisation is key for gaining new knowledge, better engaging audiences, and driving meaningful action. We’ll share bespoke data…
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ML Interpretability with Ambient Visualisations
I produced some ambient visualisations as background to short talks on the topic of Interpreting the Opaque Box of ML from ThoughtWorks Technology Radar Volume 21. The talks were presented in breaks at the YOW Developer Conference. Here are my speaker notes. Theme Intro The theme I’m talking about is Interpreting the Opaque Box of…
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Cost Sensitive Learning – A Hitchhikers Guide
Typically prediction is about getting the right answer. But many prediction problems have large and asymmetric costs for different types of mistakes. And often, the chance of making mistakes is exacerbated by training data imbalances. Cost-Sensitive Learning is the range of techniques for extending standard ML approaches to deal with imbalanced data and outcomes. Cost-sensitive…
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Curtin HIVE Data Visualisation Presentation (2014)
IT was great fun presenting some novel business data visualisations on the impressive hardware at Curtin Hive. I just found this video from the 2014 presentation – at about 25 minutes, check out “The Matrix” on the 3m x 8m cylindrical display!
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Continuous Intelligence at Thoughtworks Live
Mat Kelcey and I wrote on this talk together. Mat presented at the Sydney event (slides) and I presented at the Melbourne Event (different but same slides). We also had the pleasure of presenting alongside international guests Arif Wider and Sean Gustafson who shared their excellent DataDevOps manifesto (there’s a video from NDC too). I’d…
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Reasoning About Machine Intuition
This talk discusses the resurgence of Machine Learning and neural networks from multiple digital perspectives, including: I chose to use “intuition” to distinguish ML’s capability for pattern recognition in narrow tasks from other descriptions of intelligence. Find slides here. Outline Machine intuition, ftw What just happened? So, what’s next? Designing products with intuition Developing technology…
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Scaling Change
Once upon a time, scaling production may have been enough to be competitive. Now, the most competitive organisations scale change to continually improve customer experience. How can we use what we’ve learned scaling production to scale change? I recently presented a talk titled “Scaling Change”. In the talk I explore the connections between scaling production, sustaining…
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Arguments with Agency
Here are slides from my talk at LASTconf 2015. The title is “Bring Your A-Game to Arguments for Change”. The premise is that there are different types of arguments, more or less suited to various organisational and delivery scenarios, and the best ones have their own agency. In these respects, you can think of them like…
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Seeing Stars – Bespoke AR for Mobiles
I presented on the development of the awesome Fireballs in the Sky app (iOS and Android) at YOW! West with some great app developers. See the PDF. (NB. there were a lot of transitions) Abstract We’ll explore the development of the Fireballs in the Sky app, designed for citizen scientists to record sightings of meteorites…