Gareth Jones
ConsultantShine Solutions
I'm a developer with 20 years experience. So, old. I live in Melbourne, working on Big Data, Machine Learning, and other buzzwords. I maintain the popular(ish) node.js logging package log4js-node.
Talks I've Given
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Using Sentiment Analysis To Fill In The Gaps From User Surveys
Featuring Gareth Jones
We put a year's worth of online help chat logs from a major Australian Superannuation website through Google's Natural Language API, to see what insights we could gain from the users. This talk will discuss how the Natural Language API works, and the underlying machine learning concepts, and also...
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Image Recognition for Non-Experts: From Google Cloud Vision to Tensorflow
Featuring Gareth Jones
Displaying an inappropriate ad on a website can be a major headache for an Ad network. Showing ads for a site’s major competitor, or ads in a category at odds with the site’s brand, for example, can cause embarrassment and lost revenue. With the selection of ads being largely...
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Progressive Web Apps (PWAs): What has the Web ever Done for Us?
Featuring Gareth Jones
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) bring us a step closer to not needing to develop native mobile apps. They bring with them some benefits and some drawbacks. This talk will give developers (whether they are web or native, mobile or desktop) an insight into the problems that PWAs can solve, how you go...
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