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…4 min read·Apr 7, 2024----
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…8 min read·Mar 7, 2024--1--1
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…7 min read·Feb 17, 2024----
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…8 min read·Feb 16, 2024----
Ryan AndersonIt’s time to end the societal pursuit of growthThis piece has been published in the Mail and Guardian19 min read·May 16, 2023--1--1
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.5 min read·Nov 11, 2021--5--5
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.15 min read·Dec 12, 2020----
Ryan AndersoninTowards Data ScienceEmotion detection over 100 million tweets during a global crisisSurprising patterns emerge when we analyse soaring emotions during COVID-193 min read·Sep 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…9 min read·Jul 26, 2020----
Ryan AndersoninTowards Data ScienceRunning Smart with Machine Learning and StravaAn ordered list of your biggest potential training gains, based on sports watch data from you and other athletes.16 min read·Jan 21, 2020--2--2