Our Newsletter Archive

We share some insights from an information design session by Martin Krzywinski and Dr. Katherine Gillieson exploring the benefits of combining an artistic and scientific approach to visually displaying data.

We announce that registration is open for our workshop with the British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) on data literacy. 

Natural language processing saw a huge surge in interest among the general population in 2023 with the rise of generative AI. We wanted to share some interesting news and innovations in the NLP and machine learning space from this past year.

We look back on our 5th year since incorporation. With projects in community consultation, improvements to Unigrams, and excellent customer feedback, we are grateful and look ahead to the future with the anticipation of new opportunities on the horizon.

Last year, we completed a fantastic project with Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda. In this newsletter, we share a crowdfunding campaign from one of our contacts in Rwanda to map spatial data after a natural disaster.

In February we took some time to educate ourselves on Results-Based Management (RBM), and in this newsletter we share a couple free resources on this data-driven management approach. We also share an update on a project with Wikimedia. 

This November we're incredibly thankful for our clients, connections, and contacts! We share some behind the scenes insights as we unveil our new company video and some industry news we feel is important to know.

Hear from Kevin to celebrate four years of growth and metrics on Kai Analytics' journey. Our developer, Colin Wallace, shares his experience teaching at our NLP workshops. And meet Stephanie, our summer intern!

Our May newsletter includes a collection of pre-trained NLP models for Asian languages, an analysis of doodle game Quickdraw and how words relate to symbols, and a tutorial on topic modelling in Unigrams.

Best practices for instructors to implement survey results, parse languages in Google Sheets, and a throwback to designing effective employee engagement surveys.

We shared our first free event-Qualitative Data 101-at CAIR 2021. Participants learned the basics of creating an analysis funnel for qualitative data. Our team had the opportunity to meet up in Vancouver for lunch.

CEO Kevin "Kai" Change shares his reflections on the turbulent year that 2020 was, expresses his gratitude, and imparts some words of wisdom for the upcoming year. We also published a new case study with GCA.

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Summer is just around the corner, and it looks like it is going to be a busy time for Kai Analytics. We’ve got events to attend, blogs to share, and data to analyze!

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A Bag of Words is back and we published a new case study about NLP & a new blog post where we guide you through the full process of creating an employee engagement survey.

The Toronto Arts Council published a report including data we worked visualized. The report explores factors that cause artists to relocate. We also share a link to our data literacy workshop.​

We were invited to the African Celebration of Wikipedia by our colleagues from Wikimedia Rwanda. During this event, the founder of Wikipedia spoke about the importance of a human-first and community-first approach.

​We share our top 5 resources for learning Python to mark Microsoft's release of Python in Excel, in which users can type Python code directly into workbook cells without any extra setup.

A part of Wikimedia's 2030 Strategy, the East African Regional and Thematic Hub (EARTH) would share knowledge and resources between communities across 11 countries in East Africa

As of April 2023, Unigrams is an officially registered trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We also share a tutorial on how to change the range of a survey Likert scale from 5 to 6 points and vice versa. 

Happy New Year! We discuss our new resolution to spend more time on team building activities in 2023. Lara, our new social science researcher, shares an interview including some of her thoughts on her role. 

Our October newsletter dives into how to spot a safe survey. We also talk about joining the British Columbia Council for International Cooperation!

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We introduce our project coordinator and share an article on social value statements and an article of our workshop on communication.

Kai Analytics staff share their thoughts on how numbers are used by different cultures. Also featuring an editorial on design thinking with a futuristic example and a throwback to an article on culturally sensitive surveys.

New year, new content. An analysis of consumer sentiment using Amazon reviews, a better alternative to word clouds, and our new employees.

We're hosting a free workshop on qualitative analysis for the upcoming CAIR conference, and have also worked with the UN to create an interactive dashboard. Click below to learn more about our recent updates!

Two exciting new blogs were released, the first blog showing how to tag open-ended comments from your survey responses, and the second blog exploring the future of AI in the legal industry.

In this issue you will find a thorough guide explaining natural language processing and an introduction to our new qualitative data analysis platform Unigrams. 

With the school year starting, we share benefits of text analysis in a virtual class setting, survey results on the approaches to text analysis in higher education, and more!

We summarize some practical tips to tackle the challenges of data collection that we shared in our workshop on data literacy with the British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC).

We had the incredible opportunity of joining the British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) for a meeting with Ahmed Hussen, the Minister of International Development, as well as the Assistant Deputy Minister, Patricia Peña.  

​We share a tutorial in how to use LangChain to assist with market research tasks. LangChain is  a Python library built for creating powerful large-language model applications.

We were able to work with the UBC MDS Computational Linguistics program to experiment with new processes to make Unigrams better. 

For International Women's Day and Women's History Month, we attended a UBC alumni event exploring the importance of equity when talking about power imbalances in the workplace that are caused by gender. 

We reflect on all we accomplished in 2022, including sharing a summary of one of our projects. We wish a happy holiday to all of our wonderful clients, partners, and connections who are celebrating, and a fantastic new year for 2023.

Read this month's volume to hear how to commit to continuous learning through our workshops with LeanIn. As well as Kevin's reflections on his experiences with FNIGC's OCAP program on First Nations data sovereignty.

What digital tools are best for learning a language? How do EDI surveys inform organizational change? Learn more and discover an exciting company update in this month's newsletter!

A call for early adopters to help us with a testing phase of Unigrams and two blog posts, one on the future of HyFlex in education, and one on advancements we've seen in natural language in conversational AI and chatbots.

As 2021 draws to a close, we took time to reflect and show our appreciation to our partners, clients, and team. Visit our blog to read the full reflection from our CEO.

Unigrams' new update was featured in a recent lightning talk, where we introduced you to Unigrams and showed off some of our favourite features. Keep following the newsletter to stay up to date on what we're up to.

In July, we wrote a blog post on data visualization strategies and how qualitative analysis can transform student course reviews into action plans.

In this issue you will find an article on designing ethically and culturally sensitive surveys, and a chance to voice your opinion. 

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