Lessons from my Transition from School to the Real World — It’s been a little over four years since I graduated from the Design Leadership program at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and Maryland Institute College of Art. During the program, I took classes on Prototyping, Human Centered Design, Ethnography, Marketing, Consumer Behavior, and various other subjects within the design and…

I am a recent graduate of the Galvanize Data Science Immersive Bootcamp. In this Data Science Bootcamp we spent 3 months learning Statistics, Linear Algebra, Calculus, Machine Learning, SQL, and Python Programming. The San Francisco based program I attended was transferred from in-person to remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic…

Using Dialogflow for Rapid Prototyping of Telephony Voice Assistants — Background: Over 200,000 military members transition to civilian life every year. This can be a very stressful time for service members. There are many programs and resources to help these new veterans that are provided by the VA and private organizations. …

Using Dialogflow to Quickly and Inexpensively Build NLP Voice Prototypes Problem/Background: The GSA helps government agencies with the acquisition of $50 Billion of goods and services from over 20,000 industry partners each year. They also have 87,000 pages of information on how to do business with the GSA. The complexity of…

How I prototyped a veterans experience AI app using no-code apps — Problem/Background: With almost 1,500 Veterans Affairs (VA) treatment facilities and hospitals in the United States, a great customer experience is crucial for properly serving millions of veterans every year. It can be challenging to navigate VA hospitals for new patients. They may be confused about what is available and where to…

AI Application Rapid Prototyping with No-Code Software — Background/Problem: In 2018, over 97,000 children per year are injured in motor vehicle accidents.(Child Safety, 2020) Many times this can be prevented if the child is properly placed in the car seat. The US Department of Transportation has done a great job at providing information on their website that instructs adults…

Rapidly Prototyping AI Experiences Using Dialogflow — Background When I first transitioned out of the military, it was very confusing navigating the Veteran Affairs (VA) resources. I didn’t really know what was available to me or how to access it. If I had questions I would call the VA and be on hold for long periods of time…

How I used Rapid Prototyping to build 5 AI Applications in 10 days — On February 11th 2019, the White House issued an Executive Order launching the “American AI Initiative”, this initiative was followed by the release of www.AI.gov on March 20th 2019. The American AI Initiative encourages Federal Agencies to explore and grow AI capabilities. The United States isn’t the only country exploring…

Using Artificial Intelligence to Train Artificial Intelligence with GPT-2 — Recently while working on a NLP project I ran into a problem. I didn’t have enough data. Classification Models use input data to predict the likelihood that the subsequent input data will fall into predetermined categories. To perform effective classifications, these models require large datasets for training. So I created…