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Fernanda Viégas
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Human/AI Interaction and data visualization. Professor at Harvard. Co-founder of Google's People+AI Research initiative (PAIR)
fernandaviegas.comJoined February 2009

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Are you an academic working in the areas of Participatory ML, Accessibility, Algorithmic Fairness or Higher Education in CS? If so, apply to Google’s Award for Inclusion Research (AIR)! AIR is an international program 🤩 Application deadline: July 14
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We are very excited to announce Know Your Data, a tool that we’ve been working on for over a year. We’ve been using it inside Google and today we're sharing a beta version. Try it here → knowyourdata.withgoogle.com Here is a thread with a few features of the tool: 1/8
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Announcing Know Your Data - a new tool that helps researchers & engineers: ✔️ Better understand datasets ✔️ Improve data quality ✔️ Mitigate bias issues ✔️ 71 image datasets via TensorFlow Datasets catalog Try it for yourself → knowyourdata.withgoogle.com #KnowYourData #GoogleIO
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Thank you, to all the doctors who are risking their lives every day to save ours. It breaks my heart that, on top of it all, you still have to deal with lies and insults from a desperate, joke of a politician. #VoteHimOut
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Trump: You know, our doctors get more money if someone dies from COVID Truth: I took a 20% pay cut due to less patients. Lost 3 colleagues & 27 y.o. cousin. Cried countless times delivering news of deaths to families. I'm doing more for the U.S. than you!
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It was a pleasure sitting with and for this interview! Thank you for sharing so many insights about the social complexities that pervade work in data science and data visualization.
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A few months ago, or years ago in Covid time, @kanarinka and I spoke with some of our data visualization heroes, @viegasf and @wattenberg, about #DataFeminism, Covid, and what i means to do responsible data work. Read the full interview here: medium.com/people-ai-rese
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How do you visualize techniques for data collection that help preserve privacy? Thrilled to see this new #googlePAIR AI Explorable by and --launched today!
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The availability of giant datasets and faster computers is making it harder to collect and study private information without inadvertently violating people’s privacy. @EllenJiang2 and I took a look at how random numbers can help. pair.withgoogle.com/explorables/an
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Excited to be speaking at the Bank of England tomorrow! Chief Economist Andy Haldane and I will be talking about data visualization for machine learning. The webinar is virtual and open to the public.
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Interested in data and AI? Join us on 18 September for an interactive webinar with senior researcher at Google and data visualization expert, Fernanda Viegas. Find out more and register for your place here: b-o-e.uk/32bn3PB
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