Mar 18, 2020Highlighting keywords in context, with dependency parsingUsing SpaCy and a tiny training set to build CoachBot’s “Smart Tips” — The initial challenge Show users a few pieces of content, from a library, that are relevant to the short text they’ve just written. In my context, this was building the “Smart Tips” feature for CoachBot. CoachBot helps managers engage and develop their teams. …Spacy5 min readSpacy5 min read
Published inSaberr Blog·Nov 1, 20187 experiments in natural language understanding for CoachBotCoachBot is a digital coach for teams, that helps teams have the conversations they should be having but maybe aren’t. CoachBot’s primary value is in understanding what those conversations should be and guiding teams to have them (AKA “just ask smart questions”). CoachBot can do that because we read a…Machine Learning6 min readMachine Learning6 min read
Published inSaberr Blog·Mar 13, 2018Automatically generating goal-progress interfaces from natural language goal statements, using dependency parsingThis is how we’re thinking about using little bits of cleverness to make team’s lives easier — OKRs are a type of measurable goal OKRs are a popular way for companies and teams to set measurable goals that will naturally lead to progress. The basic idea is that you work to achieve a few (well thought through) measurable Key Results (KRs). …Okr3 min readOkr3 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Feb 7, 2018Automatically generating goal-progress interfaces from natural language goal statements, using dependency parsingOKRs are a type of measurable goal OKRs are a popular way for companies and teams to set measurable goals that will naturally lead to progress. The basic idea is that you work to achieve a few (well thought through) measurable Key Results (KRs). …Okr3 min readOkr3 min read
Nov 28, 2017Maybe startup accelerators and incubators should fund parental leave cover for their portfolio companiesLearning a lesson from research funding — Potential mothers are discriminated against There are lots of gender-balance problems in Science, Tech and Engineering. As everybody knows, they start with differences in STEM-subject choice in school, and end up with pay gaps and discrimination against women when hiring. In science research jobs, women — in particular early-career researchers — are discriminated against by…Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
Sep 12, 2017Formula One has an incentive problem called Qualifying“There’s no point in old boys like me going round, saying ‘Oh, it was so much better in the old days’, because they don’t have the old days, they’ve got it as it is now.” — Patrick Head, in ‘Lunches with Legends’ by Maurice Hamilton There are lots of complaints…Formula 15 min readFormula 15 min read
Published inSaberr Blog·Apr 4, 2017Should AI take sides?Bots for collectives instead of bots for individuals — The laws of robot ethics The most well known ideas about robot ethics come from science fiction. Asimov wrote about three laws: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except…Artificial Intelligence6 min readArtificial Intelligence6 min read
Published inSaberr Blog·Sep 23, 2016Saying “you need people to interpret data” is fine, until AI becomes less terribleWhen an event popped up at the Royal Institution called “The science and art of high-performing teams”, we obviously had to go! It was billed as a multi-disciplinary discussion on marginal gains and the never-ending chase of elite performance. The opening discussion was a delight for us, because they made…Artificial Intelligence3 min readArtificial Intelligence3 min read
Dec 13, 2015How to run Metabase on DokkuAn open source analytics dashboard on an open source platform-as-a-service — Metabase is the easy, open source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data. Dokku is: The smallest PaaS implementation you’ve ever seen Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 200 lines of Bash Metabase provide some one-click setups for Heroku, AWS, and Docker. But not Dokku! …Dokku1 min readDokku1 min read
Published inSaberr Blog·Dec 11, 2015Linking user databases and usage analytics, to get metrics on your service’s group accounts rather than individualsUsing Segment.io’s new Data Warehouses, AWS RDS Postgres and Redshift, and AWS Data Pipeline — The problem You’re part of a business who want to make data-driven decisions about how to improve their SaaS product. It’s your job to provide great analytics to help with that. But wait! your product is not B2C, it’s B2B and all of your most important metrics are things like % of…Analytics4 min readAnalytics4 min read
