14 - Functions, Functions, Functions

"Today, on following my AI journey... 🎤"

Meeting people where they spend their time

My NPL interest are changing towards this idea of simple functions. AKA. Excel formulas or Google Sheet functions.

I spent some time googling around, looking for ways to use AI and NPL models on spreadsheets, but it seems like there's not much out there. So, extra "interesting 🤔" points on my head for this idea.

The simplest functions would be sentiment analysis or language detection, but there are also many other things that could be done. For example, you could build a model to format data in a specific way, detect certain patterns in data, train a model for custom classification, etc. The sky's the limit.

Here's a simple sentiment analysis function that I hacked around as a proof of concept:

It works! and time-wise, it's not that bad for automatic sentiment analysis. It's not perfect, but it's a good start.

I'll keep exploring this idea space. I'm also going to continue tinkering with NPL models on spreadsheets and see if I can find a way to make it work with more complex functions, custom models, etc.

If I can make it work with more complex scenarios (I don't believe sentiment analysis & language detection is enough), I'll probably build a small app around it and see if I can get some traction. ;)

cya!