machine learning

Algorithms to fix underrepresentation on Wikipedia

Statistics / gender equality, machine learning, Wikipedia

Wikipedia is human-edited, so naturally there are biases towards certain groups of people.…
Robot arm seeks out Waldo, using machine learning

Statistics / machine learning, robot, vision, Waldo

The camera on the slightly creepy arm takes a picture of the pages…
Visual introduction to bias in machine learning

Statistical Visualization / machine learning, scrollytelling

A few years ago, Stephanie Yee and Tony Chu explained the introductory facets…
Machine learning to estimate when bus and bike lanes blocked

Statistics / bike lane, machine learning

Frustrated with vehicles blocking bus and bike lanes, Alex Bell applied some statistical…
Bot or Not: A Twitter user classifier

Statistics / bot, machine learning, Twitter

Michael W. Kearney implemented a classifier for Twitter bots. It’s called botornot:
Uses…
How machines learn

Statistics / algorithm, explainer, machine learning

Hearing about machine learning and algorithms a lot recently and not sure what…
How artificial intelligence can augment our own

Statistics / Distill, font, machine learning

There’s another essay on Distill by Shan Carter and Michael Nielsen. They describe…
Machine learning demo with your webcam and GIFs

Statistics / Google, machine learning

The Teachable Machine from Støj, Use All Five, and Google is a fun…
Machine learning to find spy planes

Statistics / BuzzFeed, flights, machine learning

Last year, BuzzFeed News went looking for surveillance flight paths from the FBI…
Minimizing discrimination in machine learning

Statistics / discrimination, machine learning

From Google Research, a look at how discrimination in machine learning can lead…
Visual collection of bird sounds

Data Art / birds, Google, machine learning, nature

Different species of birds make different sounds. However, the sounds are so quick…
Visual connections between art pieces

Data Art / art, Google, machine learning, vision

This is neat. A Google Arts & Culture Experiment, X Degrees of Separation…
Deep fried data

Statistics / archive, machine learning, privacy

Maciej Ceglowski, the creator of bookmarking site Pinboard, spoke at the Library of…
Sci-Fi short film scripted by machine learning algorithm

Data Art / machine learning, movie

Filmmaker Oscar Sharp and technologist Ross Goodwin fed a machine learning algorithm with…
Visual introduction to machine learning

Infographics / machine learning

What is machine learning? It sounds like a bunch of computers get together…
Automated Super Mario World gameplay through machine learning

Statistics / algorithm, machine learning, Mario, neural networks

Seth Bling made a bot — MarI/O — that automatically learns how to…
Easy text classification

Statistics / language, machine learning

Text can be a great source of data, but it can be a…