Jeff – The Computational Social Scientist

NLP…

Positive Psychology founder Lives Forever as an AI Bot?

2 Jan 20244 Jan 2024

A idea from science fiction (imortality through computers) may have become reality. This is an important article for computational social scientists. Please read it. I briefly consulted to a company…

Data Science…

Intifada=Genocide??? (What Data Science Says)

8 Dec 20238 Dec 2023

Listening to cable news lately or wherever a politician looks to get free attention, you would think that English dictionaries have made the word intifada a synonym for genocide and…

Deep Learning…

Crash Protection with Resumable Deep Learning Training

Have you ever been training a deep learning model for hours (or days or weeks) when it crashed, the power cut off, or you wanted to pause the training while…

Deep Learning…

“ChatGPT is like a talking dog:

29 Nov 202329 Nov 2023

You are so amazed the dog can talk that you hardly notice how many things it gets wrong." - Jeff WinchellBut the genie is out of the bottle, so our…

Word Crunching

The dictionary defines number crunching as "performing mathematical operations to find a value".It assumes the mathematical operations are done on numbers. But in modern Natural Language Processing (NLP) the first…

NLP

Simpler NLP Deep Learning code=Greater Business Value

21 Jul 202324 Jul 2023

Converting Word-Babble Into Sentences. Writing concise and clear programs is beneficial for business. It avoids unnecessary complications and allows for easier future modifications. I had trouble finding a program that…

Data Science…

Choosing Prediction Over Explanation

21 May 201922 Jul 2023

Along with my previous post on programming for social scientists, this is another must read paper (even if your branch of social science isn't psychology since this problem exists throughout…

Software Engineering

Code and Data for the Social Sciences – A Short Guide

11 Apr 201922 Jul 2023

This paper by two economist professors now at Stanford and Brown is the best short guide (~40 pages) on what anyone writing programs for computational social science should know. I…

University & Institutes for CSS

26 Jan 201922 Jul 2023

While there are only a dozen universities currently offering CSS degrees, there are many others with interdisciplinary institutes that research CSS and are therefore good candidates to find CSS courses.…

What is Computational Social Science?

25 Jan 201922 Jul 2023

A decade ago when this article by many of the luminaries of the field was published in Science, it omitted details of the technical definition of the computational part. This…

Why Process Mining is Valuable to Data Scientists

16 May 201822 Jul 2023

Update: Originally written in 2019 so some stats may be changed. 1. So you stand out from the crowd. Virtually no one in North America is doing this. Want proof?…

Running Deep Learning code MUCH faster on Windows

24 Apr 201822 Jul 2023

Most people doing Deep Learning in python are using TensorFlow or the easier API of Kera on top of TensorFlow. If you're doing this you can usually speed up your…

Python libraries included in SQL Server 2017

24 Apr 201822 Jul 2023

For data scientists, python is one of the two must have languages. The following list of python libraries come pre-installed when you install the python option during SQL Server 2017's…

Data Engineering

SQL Server: More popular than all open-source NoSQL engines combined

22 Apr 201822 Jul 2023

(popularity ranked here) GE's famous CEO Jack Welch had a mantra, if one of his product lines wasn't in 1st or 2nd place, he would get rid of them. Some…

Data Engineering

Which kind of big counts in big data?

21 Apr 201822 Jul 2023

Microsoft Research's Cambridge group wrote a paper with the mocking title Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster. In it they found that 50% of internal analytics…