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    1. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 8 Nov 2019
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      So which kinds of emoji should we actually make more and less of? To find out, I downloaded Unicode's emoji frequency dataset, labelled all 1468 emoji by category (I believe this practice is now popularly referred to as "training the neural net"), and calculated some stats.pic.twitter.com/UDTmdbF5kw

      xkcd 2173: Trained a Neural Net 

White Hat: Oh, hey, you organized our photo archive!
Cueball: Yeah, I trained a neural net to sort the unlabeled photos into categories.
White Hat: Whoa! Nice work!

[Caption:]
Engineering Tip: When you do a task by hand, you can technically say you trained a neural net to do it.
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    2. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 8 Nov 2019
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      Tired: looking around your house and thinking of objects you could propose as emoji Wired (as in, literally in @WIRED today): looking at emoji frequency statistics and proposing new emoji in popular but under-proposed categoriespic.twitter.com/H4dSWGrA2q

      The hearts, smiley faces, and hand gestures are indeed the most popular, confirming the results in less complete data sets, with every single member of these categories scoring above median. (Disclosure: I noticed that hand emoji were punching above their weight in the sketchier datasets and yet not making up many new proposals while I was writing Because Internet, so I've already started writing proposals for more)
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    3. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 9 Nov 2019
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      Me: So I have this column idea about emoji... My editor: I did not realize there was anything left to be said about emoji that hadn't already been written about, but you've done it

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    4. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 9 Nov 2019
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      Gretchen McCulloch Retweeted Julia Quandt

      I am a SERIOUS EMOJI SCHOLAR OKAYhttps://twitter.com/Quandtuniverse/status/1193226174949814272 …

      Gretchen McCulloch added,

      Julia Quandt @Quandtuniverse
      Replying to @GretchenAMcC @WIRED
      Inspiring!
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    5. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 9 Nov 2019
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      1. Everyone wants to encode emoji that people will actually use 2. But how do we predict that? 3. Predicting based on google search results has not been effective 4. I propose instead predicting based on how popular similar comparable emoji already arehttps://www.wired.com/story/why-unicode-keeps-adding-boring-emoji/ …

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    6. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 9 Nov 2019
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      280 characters isn't many, so I don't mean "people like smilies so give them more smiling faces" Rather, there are certain categories like faces in general which are consistently popular, so filling in more possible faces inspired by other sources of faces (eg comics)

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    7. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 9 Nov 2019
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      But we need to look at emoji as a system, in terms of actual usage data and real life examples, in order to figure out where to draw inspiration for new emoji that people are likely to actually usepic.twitter.com/IynSI3zcCu

      Using search results biases us toward common nouns—that's how we get those rhinos and coats and vampires and pretzels. But people don't generally use emoji as substitutes for nouns. They could, but they don't. Instead, emoji are used in addition to words, as a way of providing further context or emotion or illustration, like how we use gestures, and that's what faces and hands and hearts are particularly good at.
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    8. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 9 Nov 2019
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      Gretchen McCulloch Retweeted Double-Edged Sword Lesbian

      This sounds like something that people would probably use!https://twitter.com/sextoyspolitics/status/1193249475428380672 …

      Gretchen McCulloch added,

      Double-Edged Sword Lesbian @sextoyspolitics
      Replying to @GretchenAMcC
      I am FREQUENTLY very disappointed in the lack of a "rueful half-smile" emoji.
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    9. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 9 Nov 2019
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      It's easy to project onto emoji your favourite theories about how people COULD communicate with a series of little pictures But emoji are old enough that we can do better now We can actually look at real usage data and use that to inform what new emoji get addedpic.twitter.com/1mSYwwZgaS

      At their most basic level, emoji are just a bunch of little pictures, and little pictures are nothing novel. In the long view of human culture, it's hard to think of much that's less novel than a bit of illustration. What makes emoji different from any other set of little pictures—clip art, Wikimedia Commons, stock photo sitess, the much-overhyped cave paintings or hieroglyphics—is that billions of people use them.
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    10. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 9 Nov 2019
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      If the usage data showed that people loved using random object emoji, I would be here for random objects! I was completely surprised to see such resounding support for plant emoji and now I'm like hmm maybe we need EVEN MOAR FLOWERS?

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      rich lafferty, contributing factor‏ @mendel 9 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @GretchenAMcC

      I wonder if there’s a way to get data from the upload-your-own-emoji platforms like Discord and Slack? I suppose you can’t assume Discord or Slack users are typical though

      12:14 PM - 9 Nov 2019
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