Ryan Anderson – Medium

Nov 11, 2021

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. Over a year ago, and after several years of study, I recently took the path less traveled. I stepped “down” from a Product Manager role to a Data Scientist role. I say “down,” because many people used that word when referring to…

Data Science

5 min read

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

Dec 12, 2020

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. Many initially successful digital products, despite great intentions, easily devolve into a mess of seemingly impenetrable technical debt, impossible stakeholder requests and relentless stress for all involved. This deterioration is…

Neurobiology

15 min read

Oct 7, 2020

Developing an attitude of gratitude

Improve your happiness by keeping a gratitude diary for a year We live in a golden age. Compared to our ancestors, we are healthier, wage fewer wars, are more efficient as a species, have more possessions, and are more connected to each other (physically and technologically, at least). We are objectively better off than any generation before us. And yet we…

Happiness

8 min read

Published in Towards Data Science

·Sep 8, 2020

Emotions soaring during COVID-19

Emotion detection over 100 million tweets — I ran 100 million COVID-related tweets through my previously posted emotion-detecting neural network. I won’t try to explain the reasons behind the results, since this is an area rife with correlation, Twitter’s US-bias and a of course a very complex system. However, some very interesting patterns emerge! …

Covid 19

3 min read

Emotion detection over 100 million tweets during a global crisis

Published in The Startup

·Jul 26, 2020

Natural Language Processing — Emotion Detection With Multi-class, Multi-label Convolutional Neural Networks and Embedding

I came across a well-prepared dataset provided by Google, with 58 000 ‘carefully curated’ Reddit comments, labelled with one or more of 27 emotions, e.g. anger, confusion, love. Google had used this to train a BERT model, in which they had varying success in emotion detection depending on the type…

Data Science

9 min read

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

Published in Towards Data Science

·Jan 21, 2020

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. — Running smart? As a runner always looking to improve my Personal Bests (PBs), I often wonder how I can optimise my time spent running to achieve the best gains whilst being as lazy as possible. Sometimes I run seven times a week, but don’t improve my speeds over a few months. Other…

Machine Learning

16 min read

Published in Forge

·Oct 12, 2019

What Netflix Can Teach Us About the Paradox of Choice

Today’s dizzying number of options might just be making us miserable — I have been rather disappointed with Netflix lately. After it delisted a few of my favorite shows (ahem, Doctor Who) and I spent a few weeks struggling to find anything good to watch, I started wondering if the Netflix overlords had adjusted their strategy. …

Netflix

5 min read

Published in Towards Data Science

·Aug 23, 2019

Can you predict gender from personality test results?

An interesting machine learning classification problem popped up on reddit this month. A user posted freely available personality test results from openpsychometrics.org, and the user claimed they managed to predict a respondent’s gender with 80% accuracy. …

Machine Learning

9 min read

Can you predict gender from personality test results?

Published in Towards Data Science

·Aug 6, 2019

What makes a successful film? Predicting a film’s revenue and user rating with machine learning

The Movie DB (TMDB) provides an API for film data, the data which can be downloaded from here. I strove to find out whether, knowing only things I could know before a film was released, what the rating and revenue of the film would be. What parameters best predict a…

Machine Learning

10 min read