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Field notes from the frontier of technical writing.

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  • Export Google Analytics data to Sheets via Apps Script. This tutorial shows you how to use Google Apps Script to export your Google Analytics data to Google Sheets. The data automatically updates every night. There’s also a custom menu item within Sheets to update the data on-demand. You can also optionally also expose the data over HTTPS to the public internet.

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  • Embeddings are underrated. Machine learning (ML) has the potential to advance the state of the art in technical writing. No, I’m not talking about text generation models. The ML technology that might end up having the biggest impact on technical writing is embeddings. What embeddings offer to technical writers is the ability to discover connections between texts at previously impossible scales.

  • Bookmarks. Embeddings-related papers, projects, etc.

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