The 6.83% That Hides Everything: Why Aggregate Metrics Mislead
Every e-commerce analysis I’ve seen reports the same metric: overall conversion rate. For this dataset—473,000 sessions from an online toy …
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Thoughts on research methods, AI in academia, and data science practices.
AI Literacy as Graduate Education Infrastructure
In every movie in The Fast & The Furious franchise, there’s a moment in the last third of the final race where a driver uses NOS—a type of …
The Voice Interview Method
I have a problem that I suspect is common among academics: I know more than I can articulate. I have expertise and opinions and ideas, but when I sit …
How I Actually Use AI: A Researcher's Honest Account
The discourse around AI tends to oscillate between two poles: breathless enthusiasm about how it will revolutionize everything, and dire warnings …
How Many Topics? A Practical Guide to Structural Topic Modeling
I’ve been there: staring at 6,000+ survey responses to an open-ended question, knowing there’s gold in those responses but having no systematic way to …