Fernanda Viégas
@viegasf
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Human/AI Interaction and data visualization. Professor at Harvard. Co-founder of Google's People+AI Research initiative (PAIR)
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Thinking about grad school next year? Interested in visualization, human/AI interaction, computational art?
Consider Harvard!
@wattenberg
and I are building up our lab and will be looking for students.
Our DMs are open.
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Our group open sourced Facets: tools to debug your data before debugging your machine learning model
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Visualize transformer attention! ✨
AttentionViz, created by Catherine Yeh and expanded by Yida Chen, helps you explore transformer self-attention by visualizing query and key vectors in a joint embedding.
Paper:
Website:
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So excited to announce deeplearn.js: an open source WebGL-accelerated JS library for ML that runs in your browser
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I’m thrilled to announce that, as of January 2022, I’ll be joining Harvard as a professor of computer science, with an affiliation with the business school.
@wattenberg
joins in fall 2021! We’ll also continue to work, part-time, at Google and on PAIR.
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Yesterday
@wattenberg
and I gave a tutorial at
#NeurIPS2018
on Data Visualization for Machine Learning. Here it is:
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Working on visualizations for AI explainability?
Consider submitting to our workshop, part of the IEEE VIS conference:
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Check out PAIR's What-If Tool: Code-Free Probing of Machine Learning Models. It allows you to test for multiple ML Fairness measures:
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Attacking discrimination with smarter machine learning, work with
@wattenberg
and
@mrtz
; see the tradeoffs here
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Psyched to announce a new collection of essays on PAIR's human-centered approach to designing with ML and AI:
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Want to visualize high-dimensional data? Try out the brand new Embedding Projector:
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t-SNE multi-dimensional plots can sometimes mislead, see how to use them effectively: with
@wattenberg
&
@enjalot
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Unreasonably excited about having an updated website:
Huge thank you to my awesome husband
@danmartines
!
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Our Nature paper on AI Predicting Aftershocks is out! Joint work between Google and Harvard (with Phoebe DeVries,
@brendanjmeade
,
@wattenberg
). An example of how interpretability can help us learn from ML systems to do science we couldn't do before:
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The Wind Map turns 10 today! I'm still mesmerized by the powerful force it depicts.
Ten years ago
#OTD
,
@viegasf
and
@wattenberg
released "wind map." Then came
@cambecc
's .
My story for Earth Island Journal.
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Our team () is looking for talented front-end engineers as well as data visualization creators. Interest in machine learning is a must.
For either position, please apply here:
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The Periodic Table of Elements turns 150 years old this month and the history of its creation is astonishing. In celebration, here's a visualization our team made a few years ago:
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Super proud of my team’s work on the first ever AI-powered Google Doodle in celebration of Bach’s birthday. This was a collaboration with the Magenta, Doodle and TensorFlow.js teams. Congrats
@bengiswex
,
@nsthorat
and
@dsmilkov
! Compositions happening around the globe today. 😃
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Looking for a postdoc position in data visualization, human-centered machine learning, or both? Consider joining our lab at Harvard!
Here’s the official announcement:
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Psyched to announce the PAIR Initiative: People + AI Research! Adding HCI and design to classic machine learning!
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Applications for the 2018 Google AI Residency Program are now open. Come join us for a year! (in case you're wondering: this was formerly known as the Google Brain Residency Program)
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Thrilled to announce the People + AI Guidebook! A set of guidelines for UXers and PMs shipping AI products, based on data and insights from 100+ individuals across Google teams, industry experts, and academics:
#pairguidebook
We'd love your feedback.
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Excited to see
@QuantaMagazine
profiling
@_beenkim
on how she's developing a “translator for humans” so that we can understand when AI systems break down:
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Excited to be a part of this! If you're interested in ML, there may be no better place to learn...
Announcing Distill (
@distillpub
), a science journal and ecosystem supporting the understanding of
#MachineLearning
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You can now search for datasets on Google:
And, because one must test data tools with topics of importance, I looked for "chocolate+UK." Who knew that the top UK chocolate bars for all ages are Mars and Galaxy and Snickers?
Congrats, Natasha Noy & team!
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We're proud to have created the graph visualizations for TensorFlow, open sourced today!
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Visual explanation of high-dimensional data:
stay tuned for more! :)
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So excited about the first-ever Google Faculty Research Awards in Human-AI Interaction: apply by Oct 7th!
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Lovely music: listen to a real-time performance RNN in the browser with deeplearn.js:
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New from
@adamrpearce
and the
#googlePAIR
team: AI Explorables that let you interactively play with ML mechanics to see their effect on key AI issues such as fairness, explainability, transparency, bias, privacy.
Give it a try:
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Looking back at PAIR's first year: how we built technology, undertook research and published articles that aimed to broaden the conversation about the partnership between humans and AI:
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Honored to become part of the SIGCHI Academy! In awe of the other awardees and thrilled to see such a strong data visualization cohort:
@jeffrey_heer
and
@magrawala
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Automatic visualizations and verbalizations of data! New from our group, with Google Sheets:
http://t.co/voSnuAeMrI
http://t.co/otTswq9u31
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UX insights on designing simple, accessible interfaces for machine learning (the design process behind Teachable Machine)
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How does a neural net see depth in paintings? Does it "resolve" the depth depicted in these images in the same way we do?
Read about depth predictions:
PAIR project by
@EllenJiang2
,
@emilyrreif
,
@_beenkim
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Want to use AI technology to improve the world? Submit a proposal to the AI Impact Challenge--we're looking for proposals from around the globe!
AI is a powerful tool for improving society. I'm excited about our AI for Social Good program, focusing on both research & empowering the ecosystem.
If you have ideas, submit to the AI Impact Challenge! We're funding the best ideas w/$25M. Learn more at
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Machine Learning and Human Bias: insightful video from the Creative Lab folks
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Analyzing and visualizing syntax trees in the high-dimensional spaces of neural nets.
Check out the new PAIR paper on BERT geometry
And the blog post on “Language, trees, and geometry in neural networks”
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Toasters have blinking lights, cars have speedometers. Should chatbots have dashboards too?
A speculative essay👉 The System Model and the User Model: Exploring AI Dashboard Design
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Excited to announce the 2020
#PAIRSymposium
, on Nov. 18 from London, Boston and Seattle!
This year we focus on
#BoundaryObjects
as a way to broaden the set of stakeholders in
#ParticipatoryML
.
Set a reminder now at !
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Play with Generated Adversarial Networks (GANs) in your browser, and visualize the results! Congrats,
@minsukkahng
!
Excited to announce GAN Lab! Interactive visualization to learn
#GAN
by
@GoogleAI
@gtcomputing
, powered by
@TensorFlow
.js! Try in your browser
Great collaboration with
@nsthorat
@polochau
@viegasf
@wattenberg
!
@ieeevis
'18 paper:
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Thrilled to see Know Your Data launch! The tool brings a new level of transparency to ML data, code free, allowing a broad set of stakeholders to ask critical questions
Creation of
@nsthorat
and
@dsmilkov
in
#googlePAIR
; collaboration with
@GoogleSRE
team
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Rules of engagement for data vis critique/redesign:
http://t.co/L1ttIat5ot
-- Our piece for Malofiej22
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We are looking for a Research Scientist for ML transparency, interpretability & debuggability. Apply here: &
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I recently spoke with Vogue Brasil about AI and explained my view that the technology is neither utopian nor dystopian but something in between, that needs to be developed responsibly.
Happy to see the magazine covering AI:
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For those in Boston, check out this neural network art show -> Artificial Creativity: Neural Network and Augmented Intelligence Art
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We'll be live streaming the first PAIR Symposium (People + AI Research) next Tuesday starting 9:15am EDT. Join us!
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The submission deadline is tomorrow! 🙂
We'd love to hear from those of you creating visualizations for AI explainability.
Working on visualizations for AI explainability?
Consider submitting to our workshop, part of the IEEE VIS conference:
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If you are a faculty member working on Human/AI Interaction, consider applying to Google's Faculty Research Awards. Deadline is September 30:
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A tantalizing source of urban history in Amsterdam: a visual catalog of objects found in a riverbed along the centuries. Explore the interactive timeline going back to BCE:
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How the world draws: see the importance of diversity in machine learning datasets, courtesy of Quick Draw!
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A visual explanation of Stitch Fix algorithms that shows a complex data pipeline combining machines and humans
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I am *so* honored to be
@RadInstitute
’s newest Alumnae Professor!
Humbled to be in the company of amazing scholars such as
@AlyssaAGoodman
,
#CynthiaDwork
,
@SusanMurphylab1
,
@roboticwrestler
to name a few.
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It was amazing to be in such company!
Pretty cool that the stage for the AI/Machine Learning talk at
#IO17
is all women. Bravo
@drfeifei
@FSBeaufays
@DaphneKoller
@viegasf
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Looking for a great visual designer who's interested in working at the intersection of UX and machine learning: &
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"We went to Brazil because we wanted to escape" vs
"We went to Japan because we wanted to study"
Check out
@adamrpearce
's language model explorable, showing what models like BERT have learned about the world.
#googlePAIR
Type your own queries:
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Excited to see the Language Interpretability Tool (LIT) launched! Data visualization for NLP models; what could be better? :)
This is a collaboration between
#googlePAIR
and NLP researchers at
@googIeresearch
Introducing an early-release version of the Language Interpretability Tool (LIT), a visual, interactive, and extensible open-source tool for analyzing all sorts of NLP models 🔥
Code:
Paper:
#NLProc
(1/4)
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Are you working on an AI project to improve the world around you? Google will select projects to support through the AI Impact Challenge (a $25M funding pool). The deadline for proposals is next Tuesday, Jan 22:
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Language models have some beautiful spiral plots reflecting positional patterns. And a vision model has heads that arrange images according to brightness and hues. But there’s a lot more to find! What else can you see?
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A good color scale makes a ton of difference.
Up until yesterday, this
@nytimes
COVID map showed almost all European countries in red. Today, with an updated color scale, we can see there are major differences.
#DataVisualization
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Excited for my first WiML! I'll be at the
#WiML2018
research mentoring table on data vis. Looking forward to seeing everyone!
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#WiML2018
research tables. Awesome mentors Svitlana Volkova ML for
#socialscience
,
@pmangg
recommender systems,
@viegasf
#dataviz
. Check out our program book for more info about our mentoring tables!!!
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This is amazing: I can finally see the racial makeup of my country
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Proud to have marched in DC yesterday! Amazing crowd and empowering energy. Go,
#WomensMarch
!!
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Our group and Google Ideas launched
http://t.co/x4lqgj1nBy,
a visualization of computer attacks around the globe in real time
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And today, we march!! Come join us :)
These pics from planes packed with people headed to the
#WomensMarch
are such an incredibly powerful statement.
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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.
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:
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Here's a close-up of hue and brightness heads in a vision transformer! Work done with tremendous help from Aoyu Wu and
@chenxcynthia
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Got a machine learning visualization question?
@wattenberg
and I will be on the Brain team RedditAMA tomorrow!
Got machine learning questions for the Google Brain team? Join our first
#RedditAMA
tomorrow, August 11 at 10am PT -
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This is so inspiring!
If voice is the future of computing what about those who cannot speak or hear? I used
@TensorFlow
.js to make
@AmazonEcho
respond to sign language.
#DeepLearning
#AI
#javascript
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I’ll be moderating a roster of brilliant speakers:
- Charlotte Lee
@ducktopian
, University of Washington,
- Annelien Bredenoord
@ALBredenoord
, UMC Utrecht & Uni Utrecht; Dutch Senator
- Catherine D'Ignazio
@kanarinka
, MIT
- Nithya Sambasivan,
@autopoietic
,
@GoogleAI
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I'm a sticker! 😀
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One of my favorite visualization by
@wattenberg
and Marek Walczak is back up!
It's alive! Play against the artwork and see a vintage chess AI think.
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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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Do Artificial Intelligence systems get inkblots? We did the test:
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With a click of a button you can compare a datapoint to its closest counterfactual--the most similar point where your model predicts a different result.
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PAIR just launched a Medium channel to explore AI issues we care about with the broad community, including participatory design, fairness and explicability.
Today: Q&A with Sabelo Mhlambi about Ubuntu ethics & AI
#googlePAIR
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Interested in doing research on machine learning for a whole year + salary and benefits? Apply to Brain Residency:
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Check out the "Waterfall of Meaning" at the Barbican in London! :)
Our team built a TensorFlow.js-powered interactive exhibit at the Barbican this year that demonstrates bias in word embeddings (opens tomorrow)!
The team:
@emilyrreif
@tolgab0
@mahimapushkarna
@lahannahmurphy
@wattenberg
@viegasf
and myself
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I am in awe of this piece by
@driven_by_data
@amandacox
@KevinQ
at the NY Times
http://t.co/jKtoA9cEXM
Try it for yourself
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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
@adamrpearce
and
@EllenJiang2
--launched today!
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.
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Million Women March in D.C. on Jan 21, 2017. I'm going. Are you?
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See our visualization of embeddings here
Start exploring A.I. by playing with pictures, drawings, music, code, and more at
#aiexperiments
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Visualized: what your toddler and your husband have in common:
http://t.co/hIXOMyzbwN
(thanks
@kelseykw
)
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Hannah Fry
@FryRsquared
does a great job of showing how "humble" graphs such as line charts and scatter plots have changed the world and our understanding of it:
Thanks for the pointer,
@m_pellat
!
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