Machine Learning


  • May the Bot Be With You: How Algorithms are Supporting Happiness at WordPress.com

    Charles Earl reports on Elfbot, a machine learning project geared to helping Happiness Engineers provide fast, efficient, wonderfully human support to WordPress.com users.

  • This Week in Data Reading (and Watching!)

    Two great reads and a YouTube channel await you in this installment of “This Week in Data Reading.”

  • This Week in Data Reading

    In this week in data reading, Demet offers up some digital anthropology over at FiveThirtyEight while Charles shares two papers he enjoyed in the field of natural language processing, and Carly offers a piece on back propagation.

  • This Week in Data Reading

    This week, Boris, Demet, Charles, and Sirin offer pieces on data visualization, deep learning architecture, the “Dirtbag Left,” and an obituary for the late Hans Rosling, a man who “had a talent for using numbers to tell exciting stories” — largely about the world becoming a better place. Enjoy our recommendations below and remember to…

  • This Week in Data Reading

    This week, Boris and Charles bring you two new resources for data reading and pose some questions for discussion on how you approach scientific literature, and you detect and deal with bias inherent in your applications. Looking forward to your comments!