Robert Martin-Short, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:59:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Robert Martin-Short, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com 32 32 Evaluation-Driven Development for LLM-Powered Products: Lessons from Building in Healthcare https://towardsdatascience.com/evaluation-driven-development-for-llm-powered-products-lessons-from-building-in-healthcare/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:58:58 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606546 How metrics and monitoring combine with human expertise to build trustworthy AI in healthcare.

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]]> A Multimodal AI Assistant: Combining Local and Cloud Models https://towardsdatascience.com/a-multimodal-ai-assistant-combining-local-and-cloud-models-2006b2ea0cd9/ Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:40:03 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/a-multimodal-ai-assistant-combining-local-and-cloud-models-2006b2ea0cd9/ Use LangGraph, mlx and Florence2 to build an agent that answers complex image questions, with the option to run everything locally.

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]]> Building a Research Assistant That Can Write to Google Docs (Part 2) https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-research-assistant-that-can-write-to-google-docs-part-2-ac9dcacff4ff/ Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:00:16 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-research-assistant-that-can-write-to-google-docs-part-2-ac9dcacff4ff/ A tool that might help with your homework

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]]> Building a Research Agent That Can Write to Google Docs (Part 1) https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-research-agent-that-can-write-to-google-docs-part-1-4b49ea05a292/ Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:59:42 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-research-agent-that-can-write-to-google-docs-part-1-4b49ea05a292/ A tool that might help with your homework

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]]> A Visual Exploration of Semantic Text Chunking https://towardsdatascience.com/a-visual-exploration-of-semantic-text-chunking-6bb46f728e30/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:57:54 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/a-visual-exploration-of-semantic-text-chunking-6bb46f728e30/ Use embeddings and visualization tools to split text into meaningful chunks

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]]> How to Build a Generative AI Tool for Information Extraction from Receipts https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-a-generative-ai-tool-for-information-extraction-from-receipts-516424327f66/ Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:21:52 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-a-generative-ai-tool-for-information-extraction-from-receipts-516424327f66/ Use LangChain and OpenAI tools to extract structured information from images of receipts stored in Google Drive

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]]> Building a Smart Travel Itinerary Suggester with LangChain, Google Maps API, and Gradio (Part 3) https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-smart-travel-itinerary-suggester-with-langchain-google-maps-api-and-gradio-part-3-90dc7be627fb/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:37:33 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-smart-travel-itinerary-suggester-with-langchain-google-maps-api-and-gradio-part-3-90dc7be627fb/ Learn how to build an application that might inspire your next road trip

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]]> Building a Smart Travel Itinerary Suggester with LangChain, Google Maps API, and Gradio (Part 2) https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-smart-travel-itinerary-suggester-with-langchain-google-maps-api-and-gradio-part-2-86e9d2bcae5/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:36:39 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-smart-travel-itinerary-suggester-with-langchain-google-maps-api-and-gradio-part-2-86e9d2bcae5/ Learn how to build an application that might inspire your next road trip

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]]> Building a Smart Travel Itinerary Suggester with LangChain, Google Maps API, and Gradio (Part 1) https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-smart-travel-itinerary-suggester-with-langchain-google-maps-api-and-gradio-part-1-4175ff480b74/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:35:52 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-smart-travel-itinerary-suggester-with-langchain-google-maps-api-and-gradio-part-1-4175ff480b74/ Learn how to build an application that might inspire your next road trip

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