GPT-4 is an improvement, but temper your expectations. — OpenAI stunned the world when it dropped ChatGPT in late 2022. The new generative language model is expected to totally transform entire industries, including media, education, law, and tech. In short, ChatGPT threatens to disrupt just about everything. And even before we had time to truly envision a post-ChatGPT world…

The skills and resources you need to transition from a data analyst to data scientist position. — Imposter syndrome, frustration, doubt. These are just a few of the things I experienced while trying to make the jump from data analyst to data scientist in 2018. In the five years since, advances in artificial intelligence have introduced world-changing technologies such as large language and transformer models, diffusion models…

A clean way to clean data — Pandas can transform even the messiest data into pristine machine learning datasets. The process itself, though, can be quite messy. Pandas code can be hard to read for a number of reasons. For one thing, there are many different ways of accomplishing the same basic tasks in Pandas. Subsetting data…

A guide to fine-tuning DistilBERT on the tweets of American Senators with snscrape, SQLite, and Transformers (PyTorch) on Google Colab. Introduction Tweets are short bits of text that can (sometimes) be packed with valuable data. In the case of United States Senators, official Twitter accounts contain their opinions on a wide…

It’s not the only way to learn data science. It’s not the way I learned data science. But for some, it’s the best way to learn data science. I once met a woman who worked at a data science bootcamp. I asked how she got into the field. …

Understand the role of machine learning in generative AI. — This article was originally published on GPTech. At first glance, generative AI looks like pure magic. But once you start to peel back the layers behind this fascinating technology, you see it for what it is: a statistical process with both impressive results and critical limitations. In its broadest sense…

LLMs in isolation are not the future. — The excitement and tension in the air were palpable as crowds lined up only to be turned away as conference rooms filled to capacity at PyCon DE 2023 in mid-April in Berlin. The release of ChatGPT mere months before set off an AI frenzy, sparking a tsunami of innovation and…