PinnedAlison DoucetteinTowards Data ScienceManaging Language Model Risks; Dogs as Virtual AssistantsA Review of the DeepMind “Risks of Language Models” Publication·6 min read·Feb 9, 2022----
PinnedAlison DoucetteinTowards Data ScienceNewbie Adventures in COVID DataThe advice given to many who are interested in exploring or mastering data science is to find some data that intrigues you and see what…·8 min read·Jun 14, 2020--1--1
PinnedAlison DoucetteinTowards Data ScienceNewbie Adventures in COVID Data- leveraging APIs for aggregated data and Plotly for ChartsIn the first episode of our adventure in COVID data, we began to explore using Python basics (functions similar to Excel) to look at…·5 min read·Jun 24, 2020--1--1
PinnedAlison DoucetteinTowards Data ScienceWhy your machine learning model may be melting icebergs.Like many of you in Towards Data Science, I am self-taught in machine learning and can remember the day I first left my laptop in model…·3 min read·Oct 4, 2019--1--1
PinnedAlison DoucetteinTowards Data ScienceFive Hypotheses as to why Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning projects failThere are numerous articles and published papers around why AI/Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing projects never make it to…5 min read·Aug 23, 2019--4--4
Alison DoucetteHow do we make ethically-data-sourced, explainable AI like organic food? Or maybe better?If you wander about your local supermarket in the U.S., you will find food products labelled “organic” and/or “natural”. To be labelled…7 min read·Oct 16, 2023----
Alison DoucetteThe High Fiber Diet: Myths and MysteriesKale or not to Kale….·3 min read·Sep 29, 2023----
Alison DoucetteJust for fun: A Homeowner in New England takes a cynical look at the real impact they can make…Enough with the “green guilt”, please·6 min read·Sep 12, 2023----
Alison DoucetteinTowards Data ScienceAnthropomorphizing AI: Humans Looking for Empathy in All the Wrong PlacesShould we halt the race to pass the Turing Test? Has Data Quality caught up with LLMs? Are we designed to be deceived?·8 min read·Aug 2, 2023----
Alison DoucetteIf the Economy was a game of Jenga: Childcare as the first brickWhile Americans agree that childcare is a necessity, they diverge when it comes to the associated cultural values·9 min read·Feb 16, 2022----