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Desk · Notes and signal

Research begins with a signal.
Better questions come next.

Project notes turn public work into practical questions about product research, model evaluation, business planning and the decisions that follow.

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Method, product, research
Research team reviewing evidence in a laboratory
Applied NLP · product research

A sentiment label is only useful if the product can act on it

A 37,000-plus review study opens a harder question than positive or negative: what should a product team change next?

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Artificial intelligence research visualization
Platform security · anomaly research

An API anomaly is a sequence, not a suspicious request

An access-behaviour study points to a better security question: when does an ordinary session stop behaving like itself?

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Research and information systems
Text analysis · community insight

The word “game” is easy to count. The conversation is harder to hear.

A Reddit comments project shows why topic models need context, not just a list of frequent terms.

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Business planning materials on a table
Business planning · market entry

Before a company expands, make the assumptions visible

A public Mottu expansion business case is a prompt to model the decision before the map gets crowded with pins.

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Machine learning research visualization
Applied ML · game discovery

Popularity is not the same thing as a good recommendation

A RAWG gaming-data project raises a product-design question: which signals describe a player's fit, not just a game's reach?

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Archival research and digital text analysis
Historical text · digital research

Historical text needs a model that knows what it cannot normalize

A text-analytics project on Ottoman history is a reminder that language processing begins with the archive's shape and context.

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Comparative labour research and analysis
Labour data · comparative insight

Two countries can share a chart and still ask different questions

A U.S.–Canada remote-work comparison is a lesson in keeping time, industry and worker context inside the analysis.

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