Katherine Munro, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:22:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Katherine Munro, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com 32 32 No Baseline? No Benchmarks? No Biggie! An Experimental Approach to Agile Chatbot Development https://towardsdatascience.com/lessons-from-agile-experimental-chatbot-development-73ea515ba762/ Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:39:06 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/lessons-from-agile-experimental-chatbot-development-73ea515ba762/ Lessons learned bringing LLM-based products to production

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]]> How Big Tech Is Exploiting Content Creators, And (Trying To) Get Away With It https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-and-copyright-do-you-suffer-from-being-an-artist-you-may-be-entitled-to-compensation-27c13312127d/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:02:41 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-and-copyright-do-you-suffer-from-being-an-artist-you-may-be-entitled-to-compensation-27c13312127d/ If you’re reading this, you’re part of the content creator ecosystem: either as a fellow writer, casual consumer or a Medium subscriber. You help keep the system running, which means you have a stake in the subject of today’s post, which will be all about copyright concerns and Generative AI. I’ve been keeping an interested […]

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]]> From Probabilistic to Predictive: Methods for Mastering Customer Lifetime Value https://towardsdatascience.com/from-probabilistic-to-predictive-methods-for-mastering-customer-lifetime-value-72f090ebcde2/ Fri, 03 May 2024 05:38:09 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/from-probabilistic-to-predictive-methods-for-mastering-customer-lifetime-value-72f090ebcde2/ The final chapter in a comprehensive, practical guide to real-world applications of CLV analysis & prediction

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]]> Yes, you still need old-school NLP skills in “the age of ChatGPT” https://towardsdatascience.com/yes-you-still-need-old-school-nlp-skills-in-the-age-of-chatgpt-a26a47dc23d7/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 08:44:52 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/yes-you-still-need-old-school-nlp-skills-in-the-age-of-chatgpt-a26a47dc23d7/ Large Language Models are amazing, but for many production problems, simpler techniques are faster, cheaper, and just as...

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]]> Methods for Modelling Customer Lifetime Value: The Good Stuff and the Gotchas https://towardsdatascience.com/methods-for-modelling-customer-lifetime-value-the-good-stuff-and-the-gotchas-445f8a6587be/ Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:26:45 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/methods-for-modelling-customer-lifetime-value-the-good-stuff-and-the-gotchas-445f8a6587be/ Part three of a comprehensive, practical guide to CLV techniques and real-world use-cases

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]]> Methods for Modelling Customer Lifetime Value: The Good Stuff and the Gotchas https://towardsdatascience.com/methods-for-modelling-customer-lifetime-value-the-good-stuff-and-the-gotchas-445f8a6587be-2/ Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:26:45 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/methods-for-modelling-customer-lifetime-value-the-good-stuff-and-the-gotchas-445f8a6587be-2/ Part three of a comprehensive, practical guide to CLV techniques and real-world use-cases

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]]> Congrats on your Customer Lifetime Value prediction model - now what are you going to do with it? https://towardsdatascience.com/congrats-on-your-customer-lifetime-value-prediction-model-now-what-are-you-going-to-do-with-it-977634b58868/ Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:18:18 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/congrats-on-your-customer-lifetime-value-prediction-model-now-what-are-you-going-to-do-with-it-977634b58868/ An obsessively detailed guide to Customer Lifetime Value techniques and real-world applications

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]]> Congrats on your Customer Lifetime Value prediction model – now what are you going to do with it? https://towardsdatascience.com/congrats-on-your-customer-lifetime-value-prediction-model-now-what-are-you-going-to-do-with-it-977634b58868-2/ Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:18:18 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/congrats-on-your-customer-lifetime-value-prediction-model-now-what-are-you-going-to-do-with-it-977634b58868-2/ An obsessively detailed guide to Customer Lifetime Value techniques and real-world applications

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]]> From analytics to actual application: the case of Customer Lifetime Value https://towardsdatascience.com/from-analytics-to-actual-application-the-case-of-customer-lifetime-value-91e482561c21/ Sun, 02 Jul 2023 15:06:57 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/from-analytics-to-actual-application-the-case-of-customer-lifetime-value-91e482561c21/ Part one of a comprehensive, practical guide to CLV techniques and real-world use-cases

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]]> From analytics to actual application: the case of Customer Lifetime Value https://towardsdatascience.com/from-analytics-to-actual-application-the-case-of-customer-lifetime-value-91e482561c21-2/ Sun, 02 Jul 2023 15:06:57 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/from-analytics-to-actual-application-the-case-of-customer-lifetime-value-91e482561c21-2/ Part one of a comprehensive, practical guide to CLV techniques and real-world use-cases

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]]> Guided Transfer Learning: How to use ‘the power of scouts’ to boost machine learning performance https://towardsdatascience.com/guided-transfer-learning-how-to-use-the-power-of-scouts-to-boost-machine-learning-performance-7e478d1ec5e4/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:16:46 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/guided-transfer-learning-how-to-use-the-power-of-scouts-to-boost-machine-learning-performance-7e478d1ec5e4/ An exclusive sneak-peek at a revolutionary new method for training neural networks

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]]> How to Do Language Detection Using Python, NLTK, and Some Easy Statistics https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-do-language-detection-using-python-nltk-and-some-easy-statistics-6cec9a02148/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:36:53 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-do-language-detection-using-python-nltk-and-some-easy-statistics-6cec9a02148/ A practical introduction to a technology you use every day.

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