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Applied ML tutorials, NLP use cases in finance and government, and practical insights from building real production systems.

Your Embeddings Can't Read. That's the Problem.

Text-only pipelines miss half the information in most real-world documents. Here's why multimodal embeddings — and Google Gemini specifically — change the equation.

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April 14, 20265 min read
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From Jupyter Notebook to Production: A Deployment Checklist

The model works in your notebook. Now what? A practical checklist for deploying ML models — based on what we've actually shipped, not what the textbooks recommend.

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April 14, 20268 min read
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When Your Client Has 500 Rows, Not 500 Million

Most real-world ML happens on small datasets. Here's how to make it work — feature engineering, strong priors, validation strategy, and knowing when to stop.

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April 7, 20268 min read
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The Data Science Stack for Small and Mid-Size Businesses

You don't need Databricks, Snowflake, or a 10-person data team to get value from ML. Here's the practical stack we use for small-business deployments — and what you can skip.

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March 31, 20268 min read
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Forecasting Demand When Your Data Is Seasonal: Resort Occupancy and Healthcare Visits

A beach resort and an urgent care network face the same core problem: demand that swings hard by season. Here's how we built forecasting systems for both — and why Prophet was only the starting point.

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March 24, 20268 min read
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NLP for Lead Qualification: What a Personal Injury Firm Taught Us About Text Data

Intake forms, medical records, and police reports — all in two languages. How we built an NLP-powered case triage system for a South Texas personal injury firm.

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March 17, 20267 min read
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Predictive Pricing for Small Business: Lessons from Boats and Used Cars

We built ML pricing models for a boat dealer and a used-car lot. The industries are different. The models are surprisingly similar — and the real gains came from feature engineering, not algorithms.

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March 10, 20267 min read
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10 ML Pipelines for 10 Different Industries: What We Learned

We built ML systems for boat dealers, shrimp fleets, law firms, hospitals, and more. Here's what actually transfers across industries — and what doesn't.

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March 3, 20268 min read
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DataSalt

MLOps closes the gap between model development and production. Here's how to think about it — and where to start.

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November 15, 20253 min read
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