SheWritesAI categories for digests and search

New list of categories: is your newsletter categorized correctly?

Hi folks - happy Friday! Those of you who have used the SheWritesAI searchable directory table and digests may have noticed a Categories column. Up until now, we were using a general algorithm that automatically categorized texts. The problem with that? The vast majority of our newsletters were categorized as “AI/ML” … well, duh … true, but not helpful for us. 😆

I’ve taken a shot at manually categorizing all 537+ newsletters using the following categories, based on the newsletter descriptions in the table and what I know about the author’s writing. Now, no one category is over 20% of the total. This set will be used:

• in the nomination form (shewritesai.org/nominate)

• in the digests, starting with this weekend (shewritesai.substack.com/s/digests)

• in the searchable table as a column (shewritesai.org/search)

Community members: If you feel like your newsletter belongs in a different primary category within AI and data, let me know and I’ll be glad to update it.

Feedback on these categories is welcome in the SheWritesAI subscriber chat (shewritesai.substack.com/chat), especially on larger categories. AI Applications is at 90 newsletters, and both Business & Strategy and Ethics & Society are in the 70s.

Primary Categories:

(also listed in this interactive table for ease of reference)

• 18 - AI & ML Techniques (technical implementations of foundation models or new machine learning & data science algorithms)

• 90 - AI Applications (using AI and ML to solve problems or meet needs)

• 70 - Business & Strategy (includes marketing, finance, & entrepreneurship)

• 18 - Career & Leadership (includes professional development)

• 25 - Data & Analytics (all aspects of data collection, management, and usage)

• 26 - Design & Creative Arts (drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, movies, music, video, etc.) - writing is a separate category, below

• 49 - Education & Learning (for teachers or students, formal or informal, of all ages)

• 75 - Ethics & Society (includes culture, DEI, privacy, sustainability)

• 11 - Health & Wellness (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual)

• 27 - Law & Policy (includes enterprise governance)

• 9 - Parenting & Family Life (relationships with children and with parents)

• 34 - Product Development (includes product management)

• 21 - Relationships (with humans or with AI)

• 11 - Science & Research (academia, biosciences, neuroscience, etc.)

• 29 - Technology (includes tech industry, cybersecurity, blockchain, crypto)

• 25 - Writing & Language (linguistics and authoring articles or books and marketing them)