Coding/Development Archives | Robin Lord - Strategist, Data Scientist

A chart showing the optimisation paths for LLMs, between prompt engineering and RAG

Aira’s free GPT Fine Tuning and RAG tools

This post was originally published at https://aira.net/blog/airas-free-gpt-fine-tuning-and-rag-tools/ and is canonicalised there At the moment it feels like, almost daily, we’re seeing incredibly powerful and exciting new developments in AI and Machine Learning. Large Language Models like GPT4 are giving normal people, with no expertise in creating AI tools, brand-new opportunities to do things we thought […]

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Using Apps Script to encourage our team to take time off

This post was originally published at https://aira.net/blog/using-apps-script-to-encourage-our-team-to-take-time-off/ and is canonicalised to that page. Recently, Paddy wrote a post about Aira’s Unlimited Holiday policy, and how we make sure it’s delivering everything we want it to for the Aira team. Most importantly, how we make sure that it doesn’t result in people taking less leave than they would otherwise.

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GA4 is being blocked by Content Security Policy

On 13 June 2022 – Google made an update to Google Analytics 4 which could break your tracking in Europe. If you’re already got GA4 on your site that could mean you’re losing data (though you should have had an email from Google if so), if you’re trying to add GA4 you could be seeing

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A better way to get your team using Python

If you’ve come here from my Twitter thread or LinkedIn post you’ve probably already read this first bit. If so – feel free to skip to Misusing Colab for the good of us all Spoiler alert: this is post is about making it easier to roll out Python scripts to your team, by using Google

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How to export your container in Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager has a really useful “export” function, which we can use if we want to; Copy our Tag Manager setup to a new account Analyse our existing setup with a tool like my tag mapper. How to export from Tag Manager Choose your Tag Manager container Click “admin” Click “export” Choose the container

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Making a digital clock in Google Sheets

“This is cool, really cool, but I feel like maybe you need an intervention” – Friend’s reaction when I showed them this.

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How to get free brand interest data from Google Trends

Brand performance can have a big impact on our success as marketers. I’ve written about why SEOs in particular should care about brand here on Search Engine Land. But I think it’s wise for us all to pay attention to this topic.

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Using Google Sheets and App Scripts to schedule staying-in-touch emails

I don’t think anyone needs someone else to explain that things are a bit weird right now. We can’t visit family, we can’t go to sports clubs, and there are colleagues we might not have contact with at the moment because of furlough. I’ve been worried I might lose touch with some people or, more

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Using Jupyter to make marketing easier

This is just a blog post to share resources from my talk about using Jupyter instead of Excel. The slides from my talk, and example Jupyter notebooks are here. Jupyter is free to download, it’s powered by Python, and it’s what Excel wanted to be when it grew up. It; Gives us the visualisations we’re

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What is K-means clustering? (Plus free Python code)

Call to action Have you tried Dime cake? It’s so good – check it out. This has nothing to do with the post. What do you thinK it means? This post is about k-means clustering. I’ll describe what it isn’t, what it is, and I’ll give some examples of the process. Don’t worry – it’s

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