Public Domain Image Archive
a "hand-picked collection of 10,046 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse" from the makers of the Public Domain Review
The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
"It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process"
Page by Dr. Casey Fiesler | @cfiesler.bsky.social - skywriter.blue
good thread on the use of "public" social media posts in ML datasets
Pandas Brain Teasers: Exercise Your Mind by Miki Tebeka
these are kinda fun
Info - Data Vandals
"We present data in interesting, exciting, and revolutionary new ways, stopping people in their tracks and making them want to learn more"
An intro to designing accessible data visualizations by Sarah L. Fossheim
practical, straightforward advice
[OC] Every time a color is mentioned on a Taylor Swift album : dataisbeautiful
"Despite its name, Red (the album) does not have the most Red (the color) references. That honor goes to Midnights." via data is plural
Smelling ethics smells: when it looks ethical but something smells off... - Speaker Deck
"Ethics rule of thumb: If you start to sound like The Zuck, stop."
Everest Pipkin on the Utopian Potential of Gardens
"My interest in 'data as medium' is partly motivated by the horror of that, the misery of the being watched, being gathered, with no real opportunity to revoke consent. And also, in truth, by the closeness of that — the touching of me against the whole world." [...] "I want queerness not as a condition under which we are labeled and are made to suffer, or even as a condition under which we are labeled and find individual joy, but as one (of many) gifts for the world."
Priya22/project-dialogism-novel-corpus: The official repository for the The Project Dialogism Novel Corpus, a dataset of annotated quotations in full-length English novels.
(via data is plural): "every quotation from 22 novels, plus who speaks each line, who they’re addressing, the characters they mention, and more. With 35,000+ quotations, the corpus 'is by an order of magnitude the largest dataset of annotated quotations for literary texts in English.'"
Folklore* | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Oxford Academic
"a unique catalog of oral traditions spanning approximately 1,000 societies"
AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability - Waxy.org
andy does a great job of summarizing the economic and ethical aspects of this issue, and pointing at useful related resources
COVID-19 Case Surveillance Public Use Data | Data | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
snorkel-team/snorkel: A system for quickly generating training data with weak supervision
open source version. I've done this by hand a thousand times haha
Snorkel is a fundamentally new interface to ML without hand-labeled training data
interesting product and workflow
Wiktionary:Frequency lists - Wiktionary
wiktionary word frequency lists
Counting the Countless — Real Life
"...my ethics of care says that we should be working for a radical data science: a data science that is not controlling, eliminationist, assimilatory. A data science premised on enabling autonomous control of data, on enabling plural ways of being. A data science that preserves context and does not punish those who do not participate in the system."
Catching Unicorns with GLTR
"a visually forensic tool to detect text that was automatically generated from large language models"
languagemodeling.pptx - languagemodeling.pdf
dan jurafsky intro lecture