Karlis KandersinDiscovery at NestaBuilding an AI chatbot with Streamlit and OpenAI’s GPT-4 to drive engagement with online contentHow we used LLMs and prompt engineering to build a custom chatbot to engage readers with long-form content about future signals15 min read·Feb 7, 2024----
Karlis KandersinDiscovery at NestaHow to evaluate large language model chatbots: experimenting with Streamlit and ProdigyWe describe our initial experiments of using Streamlit and Amazon S3 to log user feedback, as well as performing A/B tests using Prodigy.13 min read·Oct 17, 2023----
Karlis KandersinData science at NestaTutorial: data-driven news discourse analysis with Python (Part 2)Measure word collocations, use spaCy to extract linguistic features, and consider LLMs in speeding up your discourse analysis12 min read·Sep 25, 2023----
Karlis KandersinData science at NestaTutorial: data-driven news discourse analysis with Python (Part 1)Start piecing together the narrative by collecting news articles, analysing trends and using sentence embeddings to uncover themes11 min read·Sep 25, 2023----
Karlis KandersinDiscovery at NestaCombining WhatsApp with large language models: prototyping with Twilio and FlaskExploration of building a WhatsApp chatbot prototype to answer questions and generative personalised activities for early-years educators9 min read·Aug 15, 2023--1--1
Karlis KandersinDiscovery at NestaCan we harness generative AI for social good?Nesta’s Discovery Hub is launching a new project to find impactful use cases of generative AI in education, health and sustainability5 min read·Jun 16, 2023--3--3
Karlis KandersinDiscovery at NestaTaming and training hunches: Data analytics and foresightHow Nesta’s Discovery Hub harnesses data science to deepen our capacity to evaluate possible futures8 min read·Jan 3, 2023----
Karlis KandersHow to embed interactive Altair charts in MediumAltair is a great python package for creating interactive charts, and you can bring this interactivity to your Medium posts as well.2 min read·Sep 12, 2022----