by Dr. Owns | May 12, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Not another explanation You’ve probably heard of data leakage, and you might know both flavours well: Target Variable and Train-Test Split. But will you spot the holes in my faulty logic, or the oversights in my optimistic code? Let’s find out. I’ve seen many...
by Dr. Owns | May 12, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Flick through any popular Macroeconomic textbook of the last 50 years and you will quickly land on a page that mentions the Phillips curve. And then another page, and then another… For example, the Macroeconomics textbook, creatively titled “Macroeconomics” by C....
by Dr. Owns | May 9, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
When I built a GPT-powered fashion assistant, I expected runway looks—not memory loss, hallucinations, or semantic déjà vu. But what unfolded became a lesson in how prompting really works—and why LLMs are more like wild animals than tools. This article builds on my...
by Dr. Owns | May 9, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Although normal distributions are the most commonly used, a lot of real-world data unfortunately is not normal. When faced with extremely skewed data, it’s tempting for us to utilize log transformations to normalize the distribution and stabilize the variance. I...
by Dr. Owns | May 9, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
I really enjoyed reading this paper, not because I’ve met some of the authors before, but because it felt necessary. Most of the papers I’ve written about so far have made waves in the broader ML community, which is great. This one, though, is unapologetically African...
