Category: Data Science

  • Romancing the AI – Using Neural Networks as part of the creative process

    Romancing the AI – Using Neural Networks as part of the creative process

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    I’m not just an artistic genius you know. I have a day job (well, not at the moment, but let’s pretend) that involves me using clever coding algorithms to tease information out of voluminous and/or complex data sets. It’s both challenging and satisfying and I’m very good at it. It’s also not so different from…

  • Chinese Whispers Graph Clustering in Python

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    I needed a simple and efficient unsupervised graph clustering algorithm. MCL is a bit heavy for my needs and I was after something that was available in pure Python (because of environment access and compatibility issues) pretty much immediately. There isn’t exactly a lot of choice! I stumbled across Chinese Whispers an elegant and simple solution. I…

  • Does Word2Vec Dream of Semantic Sheep?

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    I played with Google’s magical word2vec neural network some time ago. I found it interesting but I had no immediate use for it, so I filed it in the ‘must remember to check this out further’ section of my disorganised brain. More recently I found myself wrestling with topic modelling resulting in a near terminal…

  • 17 seconds

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    I don’t know exactly how long it takes to read the 50 or so words attributed to me in a recent Guardian article, but I doubt that it equates to 5 minutes, probably more like 17 seconds, meaning that I still have the larger portion of my 5 minutes of fame to come. What wonders…