by Dr. Owns | May 20, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
The rapid proliferation and superb capabilities of widely available LLMs has ignited intense debate within the educational sector. On one side they offer students a 24/7 tutor who is always available to help; but then of course students can use LLMs to cheat! I’ve...
by Dr. Owns | May 20, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Last Thursday, my co-instructor and I showed up to the Data Visualization course we teach at the University of Washington with a bag of rocks. The bag consisted of a fairly diverse collection that I myself put together across a set of treks in various regions of...
by Dr. Owns | May 20, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
When working in Data Science, it is not uncommon to encounter problems with competing objectives. Whether designing products, tuning algorithms or optimizing portfolios, we often need to balance several metrics to get the best possible outcome. Sometimes, maximizing...
by Dr. Owns | May 16, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Scientific publication T. M. Lange, M. Gültas, A. O. Schmitt & F. Heinrich (2025). optRF: Optimising random forest stability by determining the optimal number of trees. BMC bioinformatics, 26(1), 95.Follow this LINK to the original publication. Random Forest — A...
by Dr. Owns | May 16, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
This post will share how to build an AI journal with the LlamaIndex. We will cover one essential function of this AI journal: asking for advice. We will start with the most basic implementation and iterate from there. We can see significant improvements for this...
by Dr. Owns | May 16, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
In the beginning, building Machine Learning models was a skill only data scientists with knowledge of Python could master. However, low-code AI platforms have made things much easier now. Anyone can now directly make a model, link it to data, and publish it as a web...
