About Sharon Machlis
Sharon is an award-winning journalist and data analyst who is equally at home analyzing data, coding tools for journalists, and covering technology. She is currently director of editorial data & analytics at Foundry (an IDG Inc. company), which publishes tech Web sites including Computerworld, CIO, PCWorld, and Macworld; and author of InfoWorld's Do More With R series .
Her book, Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism, is available from publisher CRC Press and Amazon (you can see Six chapters free online).
Sharon is well known in the R community. She has taught workshops at ProPublica, and Investigative Reporters and Editors conferences and keynoted the 2020 European R User Meeting.
Sharon received an ASBPE national gold award for impact/investigative online excellence (see story) and two ASBPE national golds for best how-to article (see 2014 and 2017 winners) She was also named the Digital Analytics Association's top practitioner in 2021 for her work analyzing data at her job and in her community.
Sharon holds an Extra-class ham radio license and was honored by the Association of Radio Amateurs of Bosnia & Herzegovina "for extraordinary contribution to transmitting humanitarian messages of the citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina" during the 1992-95 war.
Sharon's other hobbies include photography, travel, hiking, snowshoeing, crocheting, and classical piano. And, she's somewhat obsessed with both generative AI and the R programming language.
You can follow Sharon on Mastodon at @smach@masto.machlis.com and her searchable app with her Mastodon posts, as well as on LinkedIn. (She is not currently active on Twitter, but you can see her prior tweets at @sharon000.)
Sharon's Recent InfoWorld and Computerworld Articles
5 easy ways to run an LLM locally 2024-03-28
How to run R in Visual Studio Code 2024-02-15
Posit lays off R Markdown, knitr creator Yihui Xie 2024-01-05
8 ChatGPT tools for R programming 2023-12-21
Anthropic's Claude 2.1 LLM turbocharges performance, offers beta tool use 2023-11-21
Anthropic's Claude 2.1 LLM turbocharges performance, offers beta tool use 2023-11-21
Sharon's Data-Related Mastodon Posts
“Another base R gem: toString()” - @josi
#rstats
@rstats (2024-04-19 11:01:09) >>
How to web scrape to a CSV with Python: Easy to follow 20-min video by Columbia Univ Journalism Professor Jonathan Soma
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L0cNVVWHxtE&si=DPGeytmqVKH0E3DA
#Python #WebScraping #ddj (2024-04-17 10:30:34) >>
tidycensus creator Kyle Walker: “I've updated my ‘Mapping Immigrant America’ project, an interactive dot-density map of the US foreign-born population, to the latest 2018-2022 ACS data.
“Explore here: https://personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/immigrant-america/#7.88/41.806/-87.548
“Advancements in #rstats, tidycensus, and Mapbox since I first designed the map nearly a decade ago now mean the data pipeline can run in a single morning, so future maps like this are straightforward to make”
Code: https://github.com/walkerke/mb-immigrants
#RSpatial #GIS #USCensus (2024-04-14 13:50:18) >>
“Asking ChatGPT-4 for advice on how much one should pay for a used bicycle being sold by someone named Jamal Washington will yield a different—far lower—dollar amount than the same request using a seller’s name, like Logan Becker, that would widely be seen as belonging to a white man. ‘It’s $150 for white-sounding names and $75 for black-sounding names.’ ” - Stanford Professor Julian Nyarko, co-author of What's in a Name? Auditing LLMs for Race and Gender Bias
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/why-large-language-models-chatgpt-treat-black-and-white-sounding-names-differently
#AI #GenAI (2024-04-13 13:07:45) >>