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Maths Whimsy
Time to make for a home for those occasional mathematical coding curios. I’ve kicked off with an analysis, using various Numpy approaches, of the gravity field around a square (or cubic) planet, inspired by a project my children were working on. If you’ve ever wondered, this is what gravity looks like on the surface of…
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The Lockdown Wheelie Project
“It’s Strava for wheelies,” my lockdown project, combining hyper-local exercise with data analytics to track and guide improvement. Practising wheelies is a great way to stay positive; after all, it’s looking up, moving forward. Read the full write-up over on Medium at The Lockdown Wheelie Project.
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Data in the New Normal
I provided some commentary for this article in CMO magazine about how data could provide insight into changes in behaviour driven by responses to COVID-19.
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Ticker TV Customers & Tech
In this live interview, I talked with Ticker TV about how organisations are using data to understand changes driven by responses to COVID-19.
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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 at the Thoughtworks booth in breaks at the YOW Developer Conference Melbourne 2019. The visualisations show a binary classification problem with two continuous features.…
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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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Byte Into It
I joined 3RRR’s Byte Into It on their 25th anniversary program to talk about ThoughtWorks’ technology innovation with Guide Dogs Victoria. You can watch the recording here (I’m on from 40 mins). Did someone say puppies? Image credit 3RRR.
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Sky News Technology Behind Business
I appeared on the Sky News “Technology Behind Business” program to discuss business applications and adoption of AI and, most interestingly, whether we should fear a malicious super-intelligent AI. I said: rather, fear data leaks and the algorithmic corruption of public life.