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Crowdsourcing 101: IntroWelcome to a brief series on crowdsourcing
(never finished the series... maybe one day. Originally published on Medium on 03.09.2022) Photo by Jake Nackos on Unsplash Even though...
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Jan 16, 20232 min read
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Black Data Scientists and AI Practitioners Today
(originally published on Medium on 02.22.2022) Timnit Gebru Twitter: timnitgebru Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@TimnitGebru Source:...
luxzia0
Jan 16, 20234 min read
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Monitoring the Earth: Valerie Thomas and Satellite Image Processing
(originally published on Medium on 02.13.2022 Valerie Thomas. Source: Wikicommons Early life Valerie Thomas was born in 1943. Growing up,...
luxzia0
Jan 16, 20233 min read
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Visualizing the Color Line: Du Bois and Data Storytelling in 1900
(originally published on Medium on 02.02.2022) “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” — W.E.B. Du Bois,...
luxzia0
Jan 16, 20235 min read
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Data Science in 2021
Where Data Science is today and where it's going (originally published on Medium on 10.14.2021) Photo by Tim Swaan on Unsplash When I...
luxzia0
Jan 16, 20235 min read
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Gear Swap
Building an inclusive place to shop and socialize for outdoor gear heads Co-created with MacKenzie Legg and Kelly Lynch (originally...
luxzia0
Jan 16, 20237 min read
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Not Ready for the Runway
A heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough of Runway ML (originally published on Medium on 07.24.2021) Original image by Duane...
luxzia0
Jan 16, 20236 min read
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Get to Know Me
Inclusion and trust in Smart Home Speaker environments Design team: Jana Thompson, Isabella Su, and Ali Hoss Originally published on...
luxzia0
Jan 16, 202312 min read
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Centering the Data in Data Science 2: Data Provenance (first published on Medium on 03.07.2021)
(Image credit: photo by ev on Unsplash) If you are building a language model to understand TikTok comments, using a language model built...
luxzia0
Jan 16, 20236 min read
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Centering the Data in Data Science 1: Data Ownership and Licensing (published on Medium 2.23.2021)
(Image credit: photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash) Data science is the science of data — in any scientific field, such as linguistics, or...
luxzia0
Jan 16, 20235 min read
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SXSW Part 1: the Spectator (published on Medium in 2019)
2019 was wonderful compared to when I went years ago — seriously, the days of “social media marketing” being the hot topic were the days...
luxzia0
Jan 16, 20233 min read
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Research Summary: Laughter is Scary but Farting is Cute
Full title: Research Summary: Laughter is Scary, but Farting is Cute: A Conceptual Model of Children's Perspectives of Creepy...
luxzia0
Oct 22, 20205 min read
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Feminist Search (Code Critique)
Originally published on Critical Code Studies Working Group site in early 2020. Co-authored with Christine Meinders, Sarah Ciston, and...
luxzia0
Oct 22, 20204 min read
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Participatory AI - How to Make Better AI
Originally published on the HEK Basel site in September 2019. Co-authored with Christine Meinders Photo: Christine Meinders and Amanda...
luxzia0
Oct 22, 20206 min read
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Learning Analogies the Most Interesting Side-Effect of Deep Learning
Originally published on the blog of a former employer, Idibon (long since closed), on 8th September 2015. The key to language...
luxzia0
Oct 22, 20203 min read
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