E is for Eskwelabs Issue 86 - Eskwelabs’ Spooktacular Adventures 👻
BOO! 😱 Happy Halloween, Eskweloves!
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Ciao! This is Meg speaking. 👋 Welcome to a very special edition of E is for Eskwelabs. Going through this issue would take you on a spooky adventure that is thrilling in two ways: it is wonderfully haunting and is crafted with Generative AI! 🧚 No time to waste!
Some questions we’ll answer in this issue of E is for Eskwelabs:
How can data professionals be festive this Halloween? 🤖
How can you captivate an audience with your spooky stories? 🔮
How can Generative AI enhance our work as creatives? 🍭
Adventure time: 10 minutes 🕯️
Spooky reading, if you dare! 🧟
Halloween is for children….even more so for adults and people in tech! 🤖
Here are some reasons why this spooky season is exciting for us data professionals: ✅
🕷️ Data Analytics can help businesses improve their Halloween marketing campaigns.
🧛 You can use Generative AI to help you come up with Halloween costumes and decorations.
👻 You can apply Data Science techniques to analyze spooky datasets such as the number of ghost sightings or the scariest movies of all time.
🪦 Augmented Reality can be used to create virtual haunted houses and immersive Halloween experiences.
🍬 Predictive modelling can forecast the number of trick-or-treaters in different neighbourhoods.
To that end, we hope the activity that follows will kick-off your festive spirits!
I asked ChatGPT to write a horror story for me….here’s how it went: 🔮
When thinking of a piece to write for Halloween, my mind gravitated towards the concept of a “choose-your-own-adventure” plot. Such as Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch, these kinds of stories are spine-tingling because you know that whatever outcome you end up with is a consequence of your decisions. 🧚♀️ Horror movies and stories are always available to us, but we don’t always get a chance to live in them.
Now, writing such a story tests one’s creativity and quickness. Enter: ChatGPT. 👾 I knew how I wanted my story to begin and I knew how I wanted it to end, I just didn’t know how to get from one point to another. 🤔 It was time-consuming trying to map out all the options and the different outcomes, so, I inputted the following prompt:
What it generated was promising, albeit needing a bit of editing on my end. 💚 My next step was making it readable through Typeform. Typeform now also has an AI feature. 🌚 Enter what you envision your form to look like, and AI will do the work in the format that you wish.
Lastly, I wanted to incorporate pictures to make this journey more engaging. After all, what is a Halloween Adventure without its spooky visuals? 😱
Because I’m not a graphic designer, I turned to Adobe Firefly for help. 🤯 Its second version now lets you upload a reference photo so it can accurately generate the image that you wish.
Asking permission from our very talented Brand Designer Kiana Carlos, I used her past works to inspire the program to generate the halloween visuals. 👏 I got inspiration from the following publications:
✍️ Our October theme reveal
✍️ This blog about Demo Fest
✍️ Basty’s blog about Baldur’s Gate 3
✍️ Our July theme reveal
With just a couple of tweaks, some witchcraft, a dash of bat wing, and some ghostly mist—our story has come to its completion. 🦇 Check out our mini adventure below!
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Welcome to Eskwelabs’ Halloween Adventure! Enter if you dare! 😈 https://bit.ly/ESKHalloweenAdventure
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Curious about how you can incorporate AI into your workflow? 🍭
AI is the new co-pilot for the next generation of leaders! 🛸 From leveraging management consulting frameworks with Generative AI to writing Python code for data visualization, we can equip you and your team with the skills necessary to succeed in the digital landscape. 🌟
✅ Upskilling starts today! Visit https://bit.ly/AILeadershipLab-Eskwelabs and checkout our online courses.
This issue was such a fun piece to create, I hope it was just as fun going through it! 🎃 For any comments or suggestions, you can drop your ideas below 👇 or message us on Instagram and Facebook!
‘Till next time! 🖤
💌 Learning with you,
Meg Ruiz
Junior Content Designer at Eskwelabs