All work
AI / Machine Learning
Editor and co-author of 40+ articles for Superlinked’s VectorHub — a technical education platform on vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, and recommender systems (2023–present). Selected pieces: VectorHub ↗VectorHub case study →
Improving RAG with RAPTOR VectorHub · 2024 · Editor
Improving RAG performance with Knowledge Graphs VectorHub · 2024 · Editor
Scaling RAG for Production VectorHub · 2024 · Editor
A Comprehensive Tutorial on Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation VectorHub · 2024 · Editor
Optimizing RAG with Hybrid Search & Reranking VectorHub · 2024 · Editor
Multi-attribute search with vector embeddings VectorHub · 2024 · Editor
Retrieval from Image and Text Modalities VectorHub · 2024 · Editor
Unlocking LLM Power with Organizational Knowledge-Graph Ontologies VectorHub · 2024 · Co-author
Your RAG application is a communication system VectorHub · 2024 · Editor
Representation Learning on Graph-Structured Data VectorHub · 2024 · Editor
Superlinked — Entre marketing case study Superlinked · 2024 · Author → Build an AI System to Recommend You the Jazziest Pants (or Any Other Apparel) on the Planet HackerNoon · 2025 · Editor ↗ Stop Scrolling, Start Building: Create Your Own AI Movie Recommender HackerNoon · 2025 · Editor ↗ Build a Monster-Finding Tool for Your Next D&D Session HackerNoon · 2025 · Editor ↗ Address Obfuscation Ekata engineering newsletter · 2021 · Editor → Ekata’s Machine Learning Identity Check Confidence Score Crunch Data Conference · 2019 · Editor ↗ Science & Medicine
Vaccine effectiveness against laboratory-confirmed influenza hospitalizations among elderly adults, 2010–2011 season Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2013 · Author ↗ The Ontario Children and Youth Mental Health and Addictions Strategy Evaluation Framework (MHASEF) ICES · Ministry of Health · 2012 · Author ↗
The Mental Health of Youth and Children in Ontario: Baseline Scorecard ICES · 2013 · Author
Business & Tech
Python developer salaries around the world Beetroot — original research & data analysis · 2021 · Author → How we work at Bitraptors Bitraptors · 2022 · Editor ↗ What is a people-centered culture, and how can it help businesses in uncertainty? Virtual Electronics · 2021 · Editor ↗ A guide to distributed team communication Beetroot · 2020 · Author ↗ Why do companies outsource? A close look at the data Beetroot · 2020 · Editor ↗ “The more we trust people the better it works”: 5 challenges of self-management LDaily · 2020 · Editor ↗ Beetroot Clutch Portfolio Beetroot · 2020 · Editor ↗
Urbanism, Culture & Humanities
Is Your 15-Minute City the Same as Mine? One size does not fit all Spacing Vancouver · 2023 · Author → Civil Discourse: Manners, Morals & Civility The Doe · 2021 · Author ↗ Seeing like a Siphonophore: vertical migration above and below Medium · 2022 · Author → Conditioned Subjects Theory & Event · 2011 · Author ↗ Steve Paxton’s Interior Techniques The Drama Review (TDR) · 2010 · Author ↗
Kant’s Children’s Children: Rawls and Habermas on how to raise kids Midwest Political Science Association · 2013 · Author
Background
Robert Turner holds a PhD in Government from Cornell University (Mellon Foundation Completion Fellowship; Russell Sage Foundation Graduate Fellowship). From 2010–2013 he was a research associate at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, collaborating on epidemiology research from grant application through publication.