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):·2 min read·Dec 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.·10 min read·Jul 9, 2020--1--1
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.·7 min read·Dec 9, 2019--2--2
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…·3 min read·May 6, 2018--2--2
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…·2 min read·Apr 9, 2018--21--21
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…·2 min read·Jan 28, 2018--10--10
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…·2 min read·Jan 6, 2018----