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Ryan Anderson

Growth hacking and chasing engagement are no longer viable product strategies

The age of growth hacking is about to be over, and this has big repercussions for data scientists and our stakeholders. The attention…

4 min readApr 7, 2024

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Growth hacking and chasing engagement are no longer viable product strategies

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Ryan Anderson

Humans, nature and most systems are too fragile to keep up with technology’s rapid progress

In previous articles I explained why technology and full throttle capitalism, in their current form, are both good and bad for us…

8 min readMar 7, 2024

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Humans, nature and most systems are too fragile to keep up with technology’s rapid progress

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Ryan Anderson

Profit 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 readFeb 17, 2024

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Profit focus will always lead technology in a sub-optimal direction, and sometimes towards…

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Ryan Anderson

Are 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 readFeb 16, 2024

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Are capitalism and full-throttle technology bad for humanity?

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Ryan Anderson

It’s time to end the societal pursuit of growth

This piece has been published in the Mail and Guardian

19 min readMay 16, 2023

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It’s time to end the societal pursuit of growth

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Ryan Anderson

What I’ve learnt moving from a Product Manager to a Data Scientist role in big tech

Doing the right work, in the right direction.

5 min readNov 11, 2021

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What I’ve learnt moving from a Product Manager to a Data Scientist role in big tech

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Ryan Anderson

Building Healthy and Resilient Digital Products — Drawing Ideas From Interpersonal Neurobiology

For massive digital products, we need a different way to tackle a new set of problems that arise with scale.

15 min readDec 12, 2020

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Building Healthy and Resilient Digital Products — Drawing Ideas From Interpersonal Neurobiology

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Towards Data Science

Emotion detection over 100 million tweets during a global crisis

Surprising patterns emerge when we analyse soaring emotions during COVID-19

3 min readSep 8, 2020

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Emotion detection over 100 million tweets during a global crisis

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The Startup

Natural 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 readJul 26, 2020

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Natural Language Processing — Emotion Detection With Multi-class, Multi-label Convolutional Neural…

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Towards Data Science

Running Smart with Machine Learning and Strava

An ordered list of your biggest potential training gains, based on sports watch data from you and other athletes.

16 min readJan 21, 2020

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Running Smart with Machine Learning and Strava

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Ryan Anderson

Ryan Anderson

Professional Data Scientist | MBA. I offer consulting: My passion is to use DS/ML/AI/IA to help us be better humans. ryanandersonds.com / Bluesky: ryands

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