Mike AnannySlow to share but...
Am THRILLED that Sarah Ciston's ( @sarahciston ) new "Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets" is out!
https://knowingmachines.org/critical-field-guide
If you wonder what ML datasets are, why they matter, & how to build with them -- this is for you.
A beautiful, provocative, & so smart guide -- for teaching, improving your work, making practices, communities, & conversations better.
(A treat to co-edit it w/ @Katecrawford , as part of the Knowing Machines project.)
A CRITICAL FIELD GUIDE FOR WORKING WITH MACHINE LEARNING DATASETS
Maybe you’re an engineer creating a new machine vision system to track birds. You might be a journalist using social media data to research Costa Rican households. You could be a researcher who stumbled upon your university’s archive of handwritten census cards from 1939. Or a designer creating a chatbot that relies on large language models like GPT-3. Perhaps you’re an artist experimenting with visual style combinations using DALLE-2. Or maybe you’re an activist with an urgent story that needs telling, and you’re searching for the right dataset to tell it.
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