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Why Your AI Is Only as Good as Your Instructions
By Sadiq Balogun, Data Scientist at LIDA Large language models (LLMs), or AI as most people call them, are becoming an essential part of our daily lives and jobs. They're no longer just chatbots for quick questions and answers; they're working behind the scenes in tools and technologies we rely on every day. For instance,...
Wrangling Chaos: 6 Things I Wish I Knew Before Tackling Messy Data
We’ve all been there, you’re excited to get into a task, you open a data file expecting clean columns and neatly labelled headers, and instead, it looks like your spreadsheet threw a wild party and forgot to clean up. Sound familiar? Messy data is not just a minor inconvenience, it can derail projects, skew insights,...
Supporting the growth of black talent in data together
Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA), and its Data Scientist Development Programme (DSDP), welcomed a visit from Health Data Research UK’s Black Internship Programme (BIP), to offer potential next career steps in data science and to celebrate 4 years of working together, to increase representation in the UK data workforce. Individuals taking part in the...
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Now for Something Data Science Ep.2
Three data science lightning talks on online food shopping, illegal drug markets and health, from the Data Scientist Development Programme.
7th Annual ATI Visualization (VizTIG) Symposium
VizTIG is the Alan Turing Institute’s special interest group on Data Visualization. This year’s Annual VizTIG Symposium will take place...
Now for Something Data Science Ep.3
Three data science lightning talks on rock strength, mental health, and missing people, from the Data Scientist Development Programme.