Sep 18, 2020
Week 1 # Illustration # Self-driving cars: Who to save, who to sacrifice? Screenshot from CBC website
Trolley problem might be the most famous and widely discussed dilemma in ethics and psychology. Here the author uses illustration to tell us what decisions we are actually making, or for the self-driving cars to make. With graphics instead of words, readers have a greater empathy with the ethical dilemma and gain a deeper understanding of how scary it could be for algorithms to decide for us.
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Sep 13, 2020
Learning and play with RAWGraphs, an open web tool to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the d3.js library.
Scatter Plot # This visualization answers the question How the housing prices correlate with the location in the city of Beijing? I firstly used the dataset for a machine learning course assignment around a year ago. Besides the LAT and LNG value from the dataset, after downloading the .svg file from RAWGraphs website, I also added another layer - the map of Beijing - to the plot to make the visualization more meaningful and easier to understand.
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