Elle O'Brien, Ph.D.The making of a zombie statistic: Do 44% of Americans not want kids?I saw something I didn’t quite believe in a news story shared on my Facebook feed (chunky blue numbering is mine):Dec 1, 2021Dec 1, 2021
Elle O'Brien, Ph.D.inTowards Data ScienceWhat data scientists need to know about DevOpsA philosophical and practical guide to using continuous integration (via GitHub Actions to build an automatic model training system.Jul 9, 20201Jul 9, 20201
Elle O'Brien, Ph.D.inTowards Data ScienceStart Version Controlling your Machine Learning DatasetsMake your machine learning and data science projects reproducible with open source tools.Dec 9, 20192Dec 9, 20192
Elle O'Brien, Ph.D.inTowards Data ScienceCan a computer name lipstick colors?I’ve often wondered who names makeup colors. If you’ve never browsed the cosmetic aisle at your local drugstore, you might not have noticed…May 6, 20182May 6, 20182
Elle O'Brien, Ph.D.inTowards Data ScienceI analyzed Marvel movie scripts to learn what each Avenger says most.One way to deal with the wait for Infinity Wars is to play with some Avengers data. I took the scripts for the last three Marvel Cinematic…Apr 9, 201821Apr 9, 201821
Elle O'Brien, Ph.D.Academic journals generated by AII fed a neural network several hundred academic journal titles. Here’s what it produced, with some hand-made mock-ups for when these…Jan 28, 201810Jan 28, 201810
Elle O'Brien, Ph.D.I trained a neural network on Red Lobster tweets and all it does is generate apologiesSo yeah. I trained an RNN on the collected tweets of Red Lobster and it just generates forlorn apologies to fictitious customers. Does art…Jan 6, 2018Jan 6, 2018
