DVUX Meetup: Demystifying the black box

When:
Monday, Jan 08, 2018 6:00p -
8:00p

Where:
Venture Cafe at CIC Cambridge
1 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02142

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Innovation, Meetup, Tech

Event website:
https://www.meetup.com/DVUX-Workshop/events/245696284/

‘The Black Box’ is an expression people use to describe something mysterious that does something cool, but hard for people to understand how it works.


Data visualization helps us understand the black box by putting a friendly, usable wrapper around a collection of inputs— data, algorithms or processes that have not been made user-friendly yet..


In this environment of AI, Machine learning and various clever algorithms, black boxes are proliferating all around us. We are asked to trust them all the time— cars that operate on auto-pilot, various recommendation engines that suggest things they think you will like, hyper-local weather reports telling you it will start raining 5 minutes from now at your exact location.


Cool. But how do we know whether to trust them? How do we know what level of confidence or uncertainty they come with? What if the black box gets it wrong? How much of a risk are we taking to follow their advice? Can some form of data visualization or interaction model help?


Come to the next DVUX Meetup to hear and share ideas about this topic that is increasingly impacting our professional and personal lives.


Guest speaker: Sharon Roth
Sharon Roth is a Product Designer at Tamr, a dynamic start-up which utilizes machine learning to automate the rapid unification of data silos. She developed an understanding of the complexity of data manipulation from her previous experience at a boutique healthcare consulting company. She has a passion for finding the most effective visualization to present data trends.


This time, we are going to ask you to do some "homework".
Please bring with you a printout of a data representation that you are either working on or that you find intriguing.
We will spend some time at the beginning of the Meetup to circulate the examples for feedback and comments. You have the option to volunteer your example for an open critique session, but that is not required.


Agenda:
5:45 - 6:00 Arrive at CIC, enjoy some refreshments and network!
Data viz pinup / feedback session (using the data visualizations you bring)
Intro with Mark Schindler
Demystifying the black box with Sharon Roth, Product Designer at Tamr
Critiques and open discussion, using two to three brought examples
Wrap-up, announcements and shout-outs


Join us at Meadhall after the Meetup to continue the conversation!

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