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Main Authors: Ciston, Sarah, Ananny, Mike, Crawford, Kate
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15491
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author Ciston, Sarah
Ananny, Mike
Crawford, Kate
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Ananny, Mike
Crawford, Kate
contents Machine learning datasets are powerful but unwieldy. Despite the fact that large datasets commonly contain problematic material--whether from a technical, legal, or ethical perspective--datasets are valuable resources when handled carefully and critically. A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets suggests practical guidance for conscientious dataset stewardship. It offers questions, suggestions, strategies, and resources for working with existing machine learning datasets at every phase of their lifecycle. It combines critical AI theories and applied data science concepts, explained in accessible language. Equipped with this understanding, students, journalists, artists, researchers, and developers can be more capable of avoiding the problems unique to datasets. They can also construct more reliable, robust solutions, or even explore new ways of thinking with machine learning datasets that are more critical and conscientious.
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spellingShingle A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets
Ciston, Sarah
Ananny, Mike
Crawford, Kate
Computers and Society
Machine learning datasets are powerful but unwieldy. Despite the fact that large datasets commonly contain problematic material--whether from a technical, legal, or ethical perspective--datasets are valuable resources when handled carefully and critically. A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets suggests practical guidance for conscientious dataset stewardship. It offers questions, suggestions, strategies, and resources for working with existing machine learning datasets at every phase of their lifecycle. It combines critical AI theories and applied data science concepts, explained in accessible language. Equipped with this understanding, students, journalists, artists, researchers, and developers can be more capable of avoiding the problems unique to datasets. They can also construct more reliable, robust solutions, or even explore new ways of thinking with machine learning datasets that are more critical and conscientious.
title A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets
topic Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15491