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Alex Held

@helloheld

Data Scientist @derspiegel. Data Analysis & Viz. Machine Learning. Mixed Method Research. Open Data. Open Source. Citizen Science. #rstats & #python

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“No, I haven’t published anything. I almost wrote a tweet last month about how I like cheese, but I deleted it because I didn’t want anyone to get mad at me.” nyer.cm/vdJwGZ1

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13,129km. No limits.* The Bundesautobahn. Requested, inspired, and made possible by Ansgar Wolsing. Tried to make the lines into illuminated neon tubes but I misspelled radius and woke up to an error. 😠 * Length as of 2021. Also mostly no limits. #dataviz #rstats

13,129km. No limits.* The Bundesautobahn. 

Requested, inspired, and made possible by <a href="/_ansgar/">Ansgar Wolsing</a>. 
Tried to make the lines into illuminated neon tubes but I misspelled radius and woke up to an error. 😠

* Length as of 2021. Also mostly no limits.

#dataviz #rstats
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I haven’t plotted any watercolor piece since my relocation earlier this year. Finally got everything up and running yesterday! #plottertwitter

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Day 5 — In the style of Vera Molnár (1924-2023). #genuary #genuary2024 #genuary5 #creativecoding #generativeart #javascript #shaders

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Combining reader feedback from surveys with behavioral click data, Alex Held presents a mixed-methods approach to evaluate the performance of news recommendation systems. towardsdatascience.com/a-mixed-method…

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What's the best way to evaluate news recommendations systems? Alex Held walks us through a mixed-methods approach he's leveraged in his work DER SPIEGEL. towardsdatascience.com/a-mixed-method…

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Optimizing recommendation engines is no easy feat. With costs high and response times slow, LLMs face scalability challenges in news platforms. However, refining prompts and using additional user data could unlock significant improvements. Read Alex Held's latest article now.

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Could open source models be the key to affordable and efficient news recommendations? Alex Held's article explores that while LLMs have strong predictive power, they come with high costs and slow speeds. #LLM towardsdatascience.com/making-news-re…