visualization – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: Visualizing Matrix Multiplication

By Andrew Fairless on November 30, 2023October 5, 2023

https://pytorch.org/blog/inside-the-matrix/ Inside the Matrix: Visualizing Matrix Multiplication, Attention and Beyondby Team PyTorchSeptember 25, 2023 “Matrix multiplications (matmuls) are the building blocks of today’s ML models. This note presents mm, aContinue readingWhat I Read: Visualizing Matrix Multiplication

What I Read: Data Normal

By Andrew Fairless on March 20, 2023February 4, 2023

https://allendowney.blogspot.com/2013/08/are-my-data-normal.html Are your data normal? Hint: no.Allen DowneyWednesday, August 7, 2013 “…what they really want to know (most of the time) is whether a particular distribution is a good modelContinue readingWhat I Read: Data Normal

What I Read: Dataset-Centric Visualization

By Andrew Fairless on May 23, 2022April 25, 2022

https://preset.io/blog/dataset-centric-visualization/ DATA ENGINEERINGThe Case for Dataset-Centric VisualizationMaxime BeaucheminMarch 30, 2022 “Different BI tools offer different approaches to building dashboards. On one end of the spectrum, you have tools that prescribeContinue readingWhat I Read: Dataset-Centric Visualization

What I Read: Expressiveness in Visualization

By Andrew Fairless on April 20, 2022March 12, 2022

https://filwd.substack.com/p/beyond-precision-expressiveness-in Beyond Precision: Expressiveness in VisualizationUsing precision as guidance for visualization design is powerful and yet limited in many different ways. Expressiveness may help.Enrico BertiniFeb 22 “In visualization orthodoxy, pieContinue readingWhat I Read: Expressiveness in Visualization

What I Read: I Like Notebooks

By Andrew Fairless on August 17, 2021July 22, 2021

https://youtu.be/9Q6sLbz37gk I Like NotebooksOct 28, 2020Jeremy Howard “I like using Jupyter Notebooks… Particularly when combined with nbdev… In this video, I explain why, and explain why I have a differentContinue readingWhat I Read: I Like Notebooks

What I Read: Why break rules in data viz

By Andrew Fairless on June 10, 2021May 30, 2021

https://medium.economist.com/why-you-sometimes-need-to-break-the-rules-in-data-viz-4d8ece284919 Why you sometimes need to break the rules in data vizBest practices help us to avoid common pitfalls in data visualisation — but we shouldn’t follow them blindlyRosamund PearceFebContinue readingWhat I Read: Why break rules in data viz

What I Read: Clustergam

By Andrew Fairless on May 20, 2021May 1, 2021

https://martinfleischmann.net/clustergam-visualisation-of-cluster-analysis/ Clustergam: visualisation of cluster analysis“Clustergram is a two-dimensional plot capturing the flows of observations between classes as you add more clusters.”

What I Read: Nitpicking ML Technical Debt

By Andrew Fairless on January 2, 2021December 22, 2020

https://matthewmcateer.me/blog/machine-learning-technical-debt/ Nitpicking Machine Learning Technical DebtRevisiting a resurging NeurIPS 2015 paper (and 25 best practices more relevant than that for 2020)May 10, 2020 “Now the Tech Debt Paper is makingContinue readingWhat I Read: Nitpicking ML Technical Debt

What I Read: Penrose, Mathematical Notation to Beautiful Diagrams

By Andrew Fairless on December 29, 2020December 20, 2020

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/Penrose/Penrose_SIGGRAPH.pdfPenrose: From Mathematical Notation to Beautiful Diagrams “We introduce a system called Penrose for creating mathematical diagrams. Its basic functionality is to translate abstract statements written in familiar math-like notationContinue readingWhat I Read: Penrose, Mathematical Notation to Beautiful Diagrams

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