Projects

Hyper-personalization in LLMs
complexity
systems
LLM
As of early 2023, most of us are still grappling with the opportunities, challenges, and unforeseen implications of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as GPT. GPT-4 is several days old, Microsoft just announced their “co-pilot for…
Mar 19, 2023

Defining Data Strategy (Univ.AI)
data strategy
conference
In this talk I cover the skills of data strategists, and the fundamental questions that they need to answer.
Dec 16, 2022

Managing the century of complexity
complexity
systems
management
Progress in human society’s technological and social development has come at the cost of staggering complexity. Understanding this complexity’s origin, evolution, and…
Nov 28, 2022

Decision Making in Black Box Scenarios (LeadDev)
data strategy
complexity
systems thinking
management
conference
Making technology decisions on well-documented and stable systems can already be challenging, but how about opaque ones - when we deal with a black box? As technology…
Nov 21, 2022

Via Negativa for Data Projects (Unstructured)
data strategy
management
meetup
A negative view on the current state can allow us to see productive patterns. In this talk I describe typical scenarios in how data initiatives fail and uncover ways forward.
Mar 18, 2022

Project Management for Data Teams Panel
data strategy
management
panel
The adoption and subsequent success of data science projects in organizations are still limited. Even with skilled teams and an abundance of resources and data, this can…
Oct 8, 2021

DataFramed Podcast
podcast
programming languages
In this episode of DataFramed, we speak with Rick Scavetta and Boyan Angelov about their new book, Python and R for the Modern Data Scientist: The Best of Both Worlds, and…
Sep 6, 2021

VSM Workshop Template
complexity
systems
workshop
template
The Viable System Model is a tool to model the organizational structure of a system. It was invented by Stafford Beer in the 1970s. While it can be used in numerous domains…
Jun 1, 2021

Elements of Data Strategy Workshop Template
data strategy
workshop
template
The Data Strategy Workshop template provides all the materials necessary for the design of a basic data strategy. It consists of a representation of a data strategy’s…
May 10, 2021

Towards homeostatic project management
management
complexity
systems
Visualization describing a self-correcting project management system
Jan 5, 2021

Explainable AI for Ecology
AI
ecology
conservation
Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in ecology, biogeography and conservation biology to estimate relationships between environmental variables and species…
Nov 17, 2020

Research Data Strategy
complexity
systems
workshop
The need for large amounts of data permeates almost all fields of research. New technologies related to machine learning (deep learning in particular), cloud computing, the…
Nov 10, 2020

species2vec
AI
ecology
conservation
Word embeddings are omnipresent in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. The same technology which defines words by their context can also define biological species. This…
Dec 22, 2019

sdmbench
AI
DataOps
ecology
conservation
sdmbench is an R package for benchmarking species distribution models. It provides a set of functions to compare the performance of different species distribution models…
Sep 29, 2018
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