Christabelle Pabalan, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:53:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Christabelle Pabalan, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com 32 32 Overcoming LLM Challenges in Healthcare: Practical Strategies for Development in Production https://towardsdatascience.com/overcoming-llm-challenges-in-healthcare-practical-strategies-for-development-in-production-04c617954b9a/ Tue, 05 Nov 2024 05:44:21 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/overcoming-llm-challenges-in-healthcare-practical-strategies-for-development-in-production-04c617954b9a/ An article on the most common LLM development challenges I've encountered, effective mitigation strategies, and a career-defining interview...

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]]> Simplify Information Extraction: A Reusable Prompt Template for GPT Models https://towardsdatascience.com/simplify-information-extraction-a-reusable-prompt-template-for-gpt-models-d6d5f1bd25a0/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:21:41 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/simplify-information-extraction-a-reusable-prompt-template-for-gpt-models-d6d5f1bd25a0/ A prompt template containing prompting techniques that have worked for me on over a dozen nuanced medical information extraction tasks

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]]> A Real World, Novel Approach to Enhance Diversity in Recommender Systems https://towardsdatascience.com/a-real-world-novel-approach-to-enhance-diversity-in-recommender-systems-7968655d4581/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 08:09:06 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/a-real-world-novel-approach-to-enhance-diversity-in-recommender-systems-7968655d4581/ Addressing the long tail problem and enhancing the recommendation experience for users on the Headspace App

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]]> Network Analysis Illustrated: Metrics to Spread Public Health Information https://towardsdatascience.com/network-analysis-illustrated-metrics-to-spread-public-health-information-4e259c3a5e33/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:02:35 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/network-analysis-illustrated-metrics-to-spread-public-health-information-4e259c3a5e33/ Network Analysis Spreading Information About Disease Prevention Imagine you’re a public health official tasked with spreading vital information about disease prevention within a densely populated city. With the threat of a contagious disease, your task is clear: to educate the community to take proactive measures to safeguard their health and prevent the spread of illness. […]

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]]> Evaluating Cinematic Dialogue - Which syntactic and semantic features are predictive of genre? https://towardsdatascience.com/evaluating-cinematic-dialogue-which-syntactic-and-semantic-features-are-predictive-of-genre-2c69a71af6e2/ Sat, 20 Jan 2024 05:58:35 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/evaluating-cinematic-dialogue-which-syntactic-and-semantic-features-are-predictive-of-genre-2c69a71af6e2/ This article explores the relationship between a movie's dialogue and its genre, leveraging domain-driven data analysis and informed...

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]]> Write Cleaner, Consistent Code: Can ChatGPT and Autoformatters Help? https://towardsdatascience.com/write-cleaner-consistent-code-can-chatgpt-and-autoformatters-help-6e3250deb18f/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:27:53 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/write-cleaner-consistent-code-can-chatgpt-and-autoformatters-help-6e3250deb18f/ Refine hastily written code your future self will thank you for with ChatGPT and autoformatters.

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]]> Visualizing AI and Tech Hype Using Google Trends https://towardsdatascience.com/visualizing-ai-and-tech-hype-using-google-trends-chatgpt-bc1c5113b701/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:16:38 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/visualizing-ai-and-tech-hype-using-google-trends-chatgpt-bc1c5113b701/ A tutorial on how to create slopegraph visualizations for assessing technological trend shifts, such as virtual reality and generative AI.

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]]> Streamlining Repetitive Tasks During Exploratory Data Analysis https://towardsdatascience.com/streamlining-repetitive-tasks-during-exploratory-data-analysis-46a40fe1d588/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 04:25:42 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/streamlining-repetitive-tasks-during-exploratory-data-analysis-46a40fe1d588/ An invitation to identify your repetitive EDA tasks and create an automated workflow, illustrated through an example utility.

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]]> Beyond Accuracy: Embracing Serendipity and Novelty in Recommendations for Long Term User Retention https://towardsdatascience.com/beyond-accuracy-embracing-serendipity-and-novelty-in-recommendations-for-long-term-user-retention-701a23b1cb34/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 20:53:54 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/beyond-accuracy-embracing-serendipity-and-novelty-in-recommendations-for-long-term-user-retention-701a23b1cb34/ An examination of the factors that contribute to a good recommendation and long-term user retention

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]]> Using Multi-Task and Ensemble Learning to Predict Alzheimer’s Cognitive Functioning https://towardsdatascience.com/using-multi-task-and-ensemble-learning-to-predict-alzheimers-cognitive-functioning-7b46fe09f9ff/ Fri, 09 Jun 2023 04:25:35 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/using-multi-task-and-ensemble-learning-to-predict-alzheimers-cognitive-functioning-7b46fe09f9ff/ Personal Tales Into Data Science In one of my previous articles, I detailed my experience of transitioning into machine learning from cognitive science and the imposter syndrome that taunted me. In that article, I mentioned: "An idea began to slowly unravel – perhaps, my background [in cognitive science] provided a much more solid foundation than […]

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]]> Why My Cognitive Science Degree Was A Great Foundation For Data Science and Machine Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/why-my-cognitive-science-degree-was-a-great-foundation-for-data-science-and-machine-learning-f5838b527d40/ Tue, 16 Nov 2021 01:23:13 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/why-my-cognitive-science-degree-was-a-great-foundation-for-data-science-and-machine-learning-f5838b527d40/ Coming into the machine learning and data science field from a cognitive science background was daunting - but ultimately provided a...

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]]> Clustering and Parkinson’s Patients During Covid-19 https://towardsdatascience.com/clustering-and-parkinsons-patients-during-covid-19-5552c005cfd9/ Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:01:40 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/clustering-and-parkinsons-patients-during-covid-19-5552c005cfd9/ Discovering subgroups of Parkinson's patients during Covid-19 to perform a detailed analysis of the ways potential subgroups within the...

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]]> Our Machine Learning Algorithms are Magnifying Bias and Perpetuating Social Disparities https://towardsdatascience.com/our-machine-learning-algorithms-are-magnifying-bias-and-perpetuating-social-disparities-6beb6a03c939/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 05:20:24 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/our-machine-learning-algorithms-are-magnifying-bias-and-perpetuating-social-disparities-6beb6a03c939/ For machine learning engineers, the companies that hire them, and the users who are impacted by the algorithms they've tuned:

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