Ryan AndersonExploring Reddit Propaganda in CanadaReddit, the social media platform, has over 500 million accounts — the majority being in the 18–29 year old demographic. It’s the 7th most…Sep 8Sep 8
Ryan AndersonGrowth hacking and chasing engagement are no longer viable product strategiesThe age of growth hacking is about to be over, and this has big repercussions for data scientists and our stakeholders. The attention…Apr 7Apr 7
Ryan AndersonHumans, nature and most systems are too fragile to keep up with technology’s rapid progressIn previous articles I explained why technology and full throttle capitalism, in their current form, are both good and bad for us…Mar 71Mar 71
Ryan AndersonProfit focus will always lead technology in a sub-optimal direction, and sometimes towards…In my previous article, I encouraged pragmatism when building the technologies that power our future. While we are experiencing a golden…Feb 17Feb 17
Ryan AndersonAre capitalism and full-throttle technology bad for humanity?Public opinion on big tech is predominantly doom and gloom today. We point at corporate greed and late stage capitalism redistributing…Feb 16Feb 16
Ryan AndersonIt’s time to end the societal pursuit of growthThis piece has been published in the Mail and GuardianMay 16, 20231May 16, 20231
Ryan AndersonWhat I’ve learnt moving from a Product Manager to a Data Scientist role in big techDoing the right work, in the right direction.Nov 11, 20215Nov 11, 20215
Ryan AndersonBuilding Healthy and Resilient Digital Products — Drawing Ideas From Interpersonal NeurobiologyFor massive digital products, we need a different way to tackle a new set of problems that arise with scale.Dec 12, 2020Dec 12, 2020
Ryan AndersoninTowards Data ScienceEmotion detection over 100 million tweets during a global crisisSurprising patterns emerge when we analyse soaring emotions during COVID-19Sep 8, 2020Sep 8, 2020
Ryan AndersoninThe StartupNatural Language Processing — Emotion Detection With Multi-class, Multi-label Convolutional Neural…I came across a well-prepared dataset provided by Google, with 58 000 ‘carefully curated’ Reddit comments, labeled with one or more of 27…Jul 26, 2020Jul 26, 2020