Brian J Lange

@bjlange

Data scientist and designer . I tweet about ML/AI, data ethics, music, food, art, design, Chicago. he/him

Chicago, IL
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  1. Retweeted
    Feb 21

    The more I think about today’s front page of the New York Times, the more it is for me another watershed moment for data visualization. But not for good reasons. This graph is confronting us with the limitations of data visualization to convey tragedies.

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  2. Jan 13

    A majority of people incarcerated pretrial in Illinois are in jail only because of the size of their bank accounts. That's not right! If you live in IL, tell your legislators we want :

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  3. 18 Nov 2020

    "We are all responsible for the rules. When a multi-billion dollar tech company takes a hidden audit regulatory exemption, that's on all of us." 🔥🔥🔥 by on Doordash:

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    2 Nov 2020

    Ok here we go. Look at the electoral maps by county for the last few decades of US presidential elections.  You’ll notice that the South goes almost uniformly Republican red every time. Duh. But if you look closer, there’s something else there ...

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    4 Sep 2020

    A common pathology among experts in quantitative field is to assume that when they are dealing with problems with qualitative dimensions that they can simply model the quantitative part and ignore the squishy human factors. This does not end well. 1/

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    26 Aug 2020

    I'd like to see a Computer Science class called Should We Build This where students have to explicitly reckon with whether things should be built or not and why.

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    14 Aug 2020

    A few days ago, the University of Chicago, i.e. the president and provost, emailed the campus with a subject mentioning “public safety” The email starts out by calling for an “examination and reflection of law enforcement in our society” 🧵 👇🏾

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    10 Aug 2020

    Dashboards are often what customers ask for. They are rarely what customers need. If you’re building a dashboard, it’s likely your user research wasn’t finished.

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    25 Jun 2020

    I want every aspiring Data Scientist to know that you don’t have to have a PhD to be great at what you do. The hardest parts of my work are converting raw data to features, getting stratified samples, cleansing data properly and checking for bias. The rest is mostly stats.

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    19 Jun 2020

    There are lots of ways you can celebrate . Below are a few suggestions: -Sign the petition to make Juneteenth an official city holiday

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    10 Jun 2020

    If you are in Chicago and your alder doesn't support CPAC, call them and tell them how you feel!

    We're in a historic moment right now and we have to make sure we come out of this with something that can't be taken back just by changing the city budget in a year or two. We need to use this moment to build power in the long term. Read about CPAC here:
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    2 Jun 2020

    With the amount of incredibly insightful questions I have received from allies this week, I decided to make this Anti-Racist Resource Guide:

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    2 Jun 2020

    y’all i’m not even saying don’t do the blackout, if you want to go ahead. but if that’s all you do, it’s performative. and on top of that, there are hella ways for EVERYONE to get involved in and outside the US. just reminding y’all that BLM ain’t some trend you can subscribe to.

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    9 May 2020

    one of the best things I’ve read on the reality and the science of the pandemic….

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    9 May 2020

    Accomplishment during quarantine: I completed the Neural Knitworks sweater I cast on 6m ago. Thank you to Nat Steinsultz () for training the neural net that generated the colorwork patterns.

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  16. 14 Apr 2020

    My coworkers just finished some work with on instructional signage for donning and doffing PPE in hospitals. Their work is freely available for anyone to download, please share with any folks you know who could benefit:

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    19 Mar 2020

    Hi Everyone, and I have launched a project to help connect front line healthcare workers with free masks please get the word out! 13/n

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  18. 18 Mar 2020

    24 Hour Sprint: Join the and share your experience with the response, to help inform and inspire global response authorities.

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  19. 14 Mar 2020

    Some of the best data journalism I’ve seen on so far.

    If you like bouncing balls explaining how to slow down , my latest story in the is for you: Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”
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    14 Mar 2020

    If you like bouncing balls explaining how to slow down , my latest story in the is for you: Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”

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