Explosions in the Sky
I'm listening to the fireworks over Lake Union in Seattle as I write this. I've never been a particularly patriotic person (performative...
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luxzia0
- Jun 15
- 1 min
You can take the woman out of Texas...
but you never really take Texas out of the woman. Ever. I just had the oddest conversation in a Thai restaurant/bar here in Seattle. ...
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luxzia0
- Apr 8
- 2 min
An Elegy
For those I have lost, and those who I remember. I sit tonight, waiting to hear about a friend who is possibly near death. An old friend...
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luxzia0
- Jan 16, 2023
- 2 min
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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luxzia0
- Jan 16, 2023
- 4 min
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:...
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luxzia0
- Jan 16, 2023
- 3 min
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,...
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luxzia0
- Jan 16, 2023
- 5 min
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,...
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luxzia0
- Jan 16, 2023
- 5 min
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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luxzia0
- Jan 16, 2023
- 7 min
Gear Swap
Building an inclusive place to shop and socialize for outdoor gear heads Co-created with MacKenzie Legg and Kelly Lynch (originally...
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luxzia0
- Jan 16, 2023
- 6 min
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...
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luxzia0
- Jan 16, 2023
- 12 min
Get to Know Me
Inclusion and trust in Smart Home Speaker environments Design team: Jana Thompson, Isabella Su, and Ali Hoss Originally published on...
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luxzia0
- Jan 16, 2023
- 6 min
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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luxzia0
- Jan 16, 2023
- 5 min
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...
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luxzia0
- Jan 16, 2023
- 3 min
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...
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luxzia0
- Oct 22, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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luxzia0
- Oct 22, 2020
- 4 min
Feminist Search (Code Critique)
Originally published on Critical Code Studies Working Group site in early 2020. Co-authored with Christine Meinders, Sarah Ciston, and...
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luxzia0
- Oct 22, 2020
- 6 min
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...
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luxzia0
- Oct 22, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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luxzia0
- Oct 22, 2020
- 2 min
We Will Not Yield: A Texan's Reflections on HB2, the Filibuster, and the Unruly Mob
Originally published on the Bay Area Doula Project website in 2013. Also as a note, I didn't know the history of UT's school song back...
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