Artificial Intelligence AI FAQ: Why Does AI Hallucinate? We all know that AI can "hallucinate." But why does it make up false facts and present them so confidently?
Artificial Intelligence Comparing AI Summarization Models: Bruce Lee Edition What happens when competing models try to summarize the esoteric philosophy of Bruce Lee?
News A cluster analysis of pop/rock harmony I am happy to announce that that article, "A cluster analysis of harmony in the McGill Billboard dataset", has been published in Empirical Musicology Review.
News Data versus Democracy is out! Data versus Democracy: How Big Data Algorithms Shape Opinions and Alter the Course of History — available now!
Propagandalytics When my identity is your slur — what deep learning can tell us about online political discourse While algorithms and machine learning can reinscribe human biases and prejudices, we can also use machine learning to uncover biases in our discourse, some of which we might not even be aware of.
Propagandalytics Visualizing the network that connects mainstream and extremist news What does this misinformation network look like? Here's what it looks like...
Data Science Data mining the New York Philharmonic performance history Mini tutorial on data mining in R with the New York Philharmonic performance history dataset.
Computational Musicology Exploring musical data with R: An introduction to computational music analysis A series of tutorials for my Computational Music Analysis students, introducing basic analysis and visualization of musical data in RStudio.
Data Science Psychographic profiling and Cambridge Analytica Cambridge Analytica doesn't give the recipe for their secret sauce. No one does. But knowing the data they have and the science that exists means we can piece things together.
Education Dr. Seuss, statistics, and the science of learning to read the optimal way to form a new, resilient long-term memory is to practice recall just before you are about to forget. What does this look like in practice?
