Kate Crawford

@Katecrawford
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Research: Knowing Machines Project
Professor, USC Annenberg
Sn Principal Researcher, MSR NYC
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Kate CrawfordFeb 22, 2023
Mike AnannyFeb 21, 2023

Slow 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.

Show threadKate CrawfordFeb 12, 2023
@ageoffford @laura @lisabrawley @sarahciston This is wonderful to hear - thanks Geoff
Show threadKate CrawfordFeb 12, 2023
@laura @lisabrawley @sarahciston That was our hope - so it's really lovely to hear. Many students want to think critically about data, and we wanted to make a guide to support that process.
Show threadKate CrawfordFeb 12, 2023
@laura @lisabrawley thanks for the kind words Laura! It was led by the brilliant @sarahciston who lead authored it and was a joy to collaborate with
Kate CrawfordFeb 10, 2023
Laura KurganFeb 9, 2023
Very useful guide to a critical approach to machine learning. https://knowingmachines.org/critical-field-guide
Thanks @Katecrawford and thanks @lisabrawley for posting
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.

Show threadKate CrawfordFeb 6, 2023
@mollyanglin Thanks so much for letting me know! 😊
Show threadKate CrawfordFeb 6, 2023
@francislee thanks Francis!
Kate CrawfordFeb 6, 2023
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Kate CrawfordFeb 6, 2023
@raphael @w0bb1t @ananny So glad you appreciate it! It's designed entirely inside a spreadsheet - made by the brilliant Olivia Solis and Vladan Joler (who also designed Anatomy of an AI System among many other things)
Show threadKate CrawfordFeb 6, 2023
The field guide aims to help you navigate the complexities of datasets, and explore the implications of what you choose, build, and design. It invites you to mess with these messy forms and to approach any logic of classification with a critical eye.