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Mourning
I am currently deep cleaning my apartment. It's slow and gives me time to reflect in a way few other things do other than a good walk...
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Jul 183 min read
Buzz
noun: a sibilant hum, such as is made by bees, flies and other winged insects noun: a busy rumor (There are multiple other definitions of...
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Jun 102 min read
Newsworthy
May 8th is apparently a wild day. When I was a kid, May 8th was just my best friend's birthday. As I grew older and learned history, I...
luxzia0
May 81 min read
Food is love
I once wrote that Italians say I love you with food. If you've ever stayed with Italian friends or attended an Italian wedding, you've...
luxzia0
May 72 min read


Vocabulary, Part 1
The best way to describe a trip is through the words and phrases you learn. Auguri! The full toast is "Auguri e figli maschi!" -...
luxzia0
May 26 min read


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...
luxzia0
Jan 15, 20232 min read


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 15, 20234 min read


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 15, 20233 min read


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 15, 20235 min read


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...
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Jan 15, 20235 min read


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 15, 20237 min read


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 15, 20236 min read


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 15, 202312 min read


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...
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Jan 15, 20236 min read


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 15, 20235 min read
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 15, 20233 min read


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 21, 20205 min read


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 21, 20204 min read


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 21, 20206 min read


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 21, 20203 min read
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