Beyond the Code

Before launching this Datafluent portfolio with a focus on NLP, I was originally intending on a website called "Data and Design", with projects in analytics and web design, especially backend-heavy projects that would involve knowledge of both web development and data engineering. However I realized that I don't really have time to become both computational linguist and full-stack web developer, so I decided to focus on data-related techniques for this portfolio.

In spite of this I do want a section to at least comment on the interdisciplinary nature of learning to work with data. It's easy to work with datasets such as you'd find on Kaggle, manicured and with the explicit goal of increasing score by improving model predictions accuracy, but in the real world it's often much more complicated and serves you well to be an expert in not only data and coding, but also the particular field you find yourself engaged in. This makes everything so much more entertaining.

So this "Beyond the Code" section will likely be a less technical place to consider recent research and offer opinions on how we can continue to use data and data-fed technologies responsibly for the sake of increased wellfare and utility, while holding in utmost scrutiny potentially exacerbated issues of inequality, bias, transparency, and privacy.