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Datasets Have Worldviews

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Every dataset communicates a different perspective. When you shift your perspective, your conclusions can shift, too.

Datasets Have Worldviews Explorables Datasets Have Worldviews Every dataset communicates a different perspective. When you shift your perspective, your conclusions can shift, too. Suppose you have a dataset of shapes. They can either be shaded or unshaded . They look something like this: You built a supervised machine learning classifier that will automatically classify each shape as shaded or unshaded . You call it the “Is-Shaded Classifier”. Click “Run Classifier” to see how your model performs. It’s not perfect— some of the shapes are definitely misclassified. You want to improve your model

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