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A teacher is marking homework and trying to decide whether a written piece of text has been created by a student or by a large language model, digital art. Created by DALL·E, prompt by Real World Data Science.

OpenAI’s text classifier won’t calm fears about AI-written homework
AI
Large language models
Classifiers
Screening tests
Educators are worried about ChatGPT being using by students for homework assignments, so OpenAI has released a tool to classify whether text is human- or AI-written. But…
Brian Tarran
Mar 15, 2023

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US legislators get their data science act together
Data science education
Data literacy
Policy
A bill introduced in the US Congress wants to make funds available to develop data science and data literacy education across the United States. We sit down with education…
Brian Tarran
Mar 6, 2023

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Using ‘basket complementarity’ to make product recommendations
Market basket analysis
Recommendation systems
Complementarity
Purchase suggestions – e.g., “if you are buying that, you might also want this” – are, to a large extent, informed by the concept of complementarity: that certain products…
Moinak Bhaduri
Mar 2, 2023

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Data science can help close the ‘digital skills’ gap, or so it seems
Skills
Training
AI
Machine learning
Data analytics
A ‘digital skills’ gap is harming employer productivity and growth, according to a survey by engineering body IET. But the ‘digital skills’ that are needed sound a lot like…
Brian Tarran
Feb 14, 2023

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Why open science is ‘just good science in a digital era’
Open science
Reproducible research

Real World Data Science speaks with statistician and data scientist Heidi Seibold about open science: what it means, the benefits of it, and how to move towards it.

Brian Tarran
Feb 3, 2023

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ChatGPT can hold a conversation, but lacks knowledge representation and original sources for verification
Machine learning
Large language models
AI

ChatGPT represents a next step in the evolution of large language models, says Detlef Nauck. However, there are still major challenges - and concerns - to overcome.

Brian Tarran
Jan 27, 2023

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How to ‘Escape from Model Land’: an interview with Erica Thompson
Modelling
Ethics

Author Erica Thompson talks to Real World Data Science about the ‘social element’ of mathematical modelling, how it manifests, and what to do about it.

Brian Tarran
Jan 25, 2023

A researcher in a field shines a light on stylised waves of noise, as if attempting to identify or extract a signal. Image generated by DALL.E 2 from prompts provided by Real World Data Science.

Pulling patterns out of data with a graph
Data management
Dimension reduction
Graph theory
Large volumes of data are pouring in every day from scientific experiments, so much so that it is now commonplace to perform dimension reduction in order to reduce a large…
Andrew Saydjari
Jan 24, 2023

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We’re taking Real World Data Science on the road
Updates
Events

Join us at the RSS International Conference 2023 in Harrogate, 4-7 September.

Brian Tarran
Jan 18, 2023

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Explore the RSS Data Science & AI Section newsletter, right here!
Updates
Newsletters

We’re starting the year with a new addition to the site: a page dedicated to the excellent RSS Data Science & AI Section newsletter.

Brian Tarran
Jan 5, 2023

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Determining the best way to route drivers for ridesharing via reinforcement learning
A/B testing
Reinforcement learning
Statistics
A/B testing is often used to evaluate the impact of design ‘treatments’ — for example, are people who see advert A more likely to buy something than those who see advert B?…
Brian King
Dec 13, 2022

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Sink your teeth into some data science papers with our brand new blog
Updates
Content ideas
Call for contributions

Today we’re launching DataScienceBites – a new member of the ScienceBites family – offering bite-sized summaries of data science papers.

Brian Tarran
Dec 13, 2022

A screenshot of an exchange between Real World Data Science editor Brian Tarran and ChatGPT.

A chat with ChatGPT
Machine learning
Large language models
AI
’Hello there! I’m a large language model trained by OpenAI, so I don’t have the ability to experience emotions or have a physical presence. I’m here to provide information…
Brian Tarran
Dec 9, 2022

An image created by the Stable Diffusion 2.1 Demo. The model was asked to produce an image with the prompt, 'Text from an old book cut up like a jigsaw puzzle with pieces missing'.

LLMs in the news: hype, tripe, and everything in between
Machine learning
Large language models
AI

We’re back discussing large language models after two weeks of ‘breakthrough’ announcements, excitable headlines, and some all-too-familiar ethical concerns.

Brian Tarran
Dec 9, 2022

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Four themes for potential contributors to think about
Updates
Key themes
Content ideas

Can data science save the world? What is a data scientist? What statistical ideas do data scientists need to know? And, what’s happening in the world of data science?

Brian Tarran
Dec 1, 2022

A black keyboard at the bottom of the picture has an open book on it, with red words in labels floating on top, with a letter A balanced on top of them. The perspective makes the composition form a kind of triangle from the keyboard to the capital A. The AI filter makes it look like a messy, with a kind of cartoon style.

Why large language models should come with a content warning
Machine learning
Large language models
AI

The outputs of LLMs seem impressive, but users need to be wary of possible bias, plagiarism and model ‘hallucinations’.

Brian Tarran
Nov 23, 2022

Portrait photos of 12 members of the Real World Data Science Editorial team

Meet the team
People
Biographies

Introducing the editors of Real World Data Science.

Editorial Board
Oct 18, 2022
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