Musings on technology and justice
The call for papers for the Fourth Black In AI conference is out! Submissions are due on October 2. If you’re not familiar with the Black In AI conference, its primary goal is to promote and sustain the development of Black and African researchers in the data science, machine learning, and AI communities. From the […]
Read More Black In AI 2020 call for papersA data scientist reviews Shoshana Luboff’s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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On May 1 of 2019, Dr. Christo Wilson gave a talk on his investigation into online behavioral experiments. The talk was based on a piper entitled Who’s the Guinea Pig? Investigating Online A/B/n Tests in-the-Wild, which he and his students gave at the 2019 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Atlanta,…
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Read More Black In AI workshop call for papersCelebrating a data science initiative at Atlanta University Center
Read More Black data science book giveawayThe statistical who exposed the Tuskegee experiments
Read More Remembering Bill JenkinsIn honor of the U.S. Black History Month commemoration, I am giving away two copies of the book W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America. What do you have to do to be a winner? Be one of the first to create and send in a visualization inspired by the set of […]
Read More Black history month book giveaway!Read on data.blog/2019/01/08/building-thousands-of-reproducible-ml-models-with-pipe-the-automattic-machine-learning-pipeline/ My colleague Demet Dagdelen explains the process of building machine learning models at scale for customer insights at Automattic
Read More Building Thousands of Reproducible ML Models with pipe, the Automattic Machine Learning PipelineI am happy to announce that The Little Shop of Stories bookstore in Decatur, GA is awesome for data science! A few blocks away from us, it is such a regional treasure for children’s books and events. Diane has brought game changing books, authors, and programs to Atlanta and environs. But last week I was […]
Read More The Little Shop of Data Science StoriesThe Foundations of Data Science Boot Camp given last week (August 27 – 31) at the Simons Institute in Berkeley explored how pure mathematics and theoretical computer science are providing actionable insights that the working data scientist can use — or at least ponder. I found the talk below by Ravi Kannan useful in pointing out how dimensionality reduction […]
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