Mia Polovina

Data Scientist | Always learning

[Mia Polovina @MiaDP]

'Think of a bot as a proxy, there is always a person behind a bot' @samuelwoolley #comprop

[Zack Labe @ZLabe]

A striking visualization of human-caused climate change - watch what happens in the Arctic... 🫠

Temperature anomalies by latitude band (zonal mean) from 1880 to 2022. Visualization produced by @NASAViz at https://t.co/Tu8aN47qlq. Data from @NASAGISS at https://t.co/8pB26JbSzJ.

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

Data visualisation helps us to understand the world. It also has the power to change it. Watch our latest video with @bbcideas, narrated by @AdamRutherford, and explore five graphs that changed the world:

[Hannah Fry @FryRsquared]

Every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying.

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

Changes in global temperature (1850-2022)

[Mia Polovina @MiaDP]

@ernestopriego @FCEMexico Amazing, congrats!

[Mia Polovina @MiaDP]

@MIT_CSAIL Blade Runner

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: a column in the Times argues that the only way to tackle obesity is through fat shaming (yes, you read that right).

It’s an astonishing argument to make, and unsurprisingly it falls to pieces under scrutiny.

Let’s take a look, and see if we can do better:

[Inna Lin @iwylin]

If you’ve ever considered using NLP for Mental Health applications, it’s vital to know what the models have inadvertently learned about people with mental health issues. In our #EMNLP2022 paper, we find that masked LMs capture societal stigma about gender in mental health.🧵1/5

[PyData London @pydatalondon]

#PyDataLondon 2022 is off to a flying start with packed out tutorials! Thanks to our team of amazing volunteers for their sheer enthusiasm and Tower Bridge for the lovely view.

[Mia Polovina @MiaDP]

@chrisalbon The Batch, NLP News by @seb_ruder and @vboykis blog.

[ICO - Information Commissioner's Office @ICOnews]

NEW: We’ve fined Clearview AI Inc more than £7.5m for using images of people in the UK, and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media to create a global online database that could be used for facial recognition.
Read our press release: https://t.co/VCnmjjcM8D

[Mia Polovina @MiaDP]

Amazing!

[U.S. National Science Foundation @NSF]

Our own black hole! Astronomers have just revealed the 1st image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy using the @ehtelescope- a planet-scale array of radio telescopes that emerged from decades of NSF support. https://t.co/bC1PZH4yD6 #ourblackhole

[Sir Michael Marmot @MichaelMarmot]

Essentials of life include whatever is necessary to take your place in public without shame. Having agency, a sense of self-worth, and participating in networks of family and friends. Lack of income threatens these and damages health. https://t.co/BO3SIQtNR2

[First Draft @firstdraftnews]

A large amount of mis- and disinformation has circulated on social media in multiple languages over the past few days regarding #Ukraine. Trustworthy information is as important as ever in times of crisis, so here are our top tips and tools 👇

[Volodymyr Agafonkin 🇺🇦 @mourner]

Look what my friends from @LeafletJS core team put up on the website while I was busy. Much love ❤️

[Embassy of Ukraine to the UK @UkrEmbLondon]

Please, donate to the account below:
https://t.co/MFZaDOXcav

[Andrew Stroehlein @astroehlein]

If you're here on Twitter following Russia's invasion of #Ukraine - and particularly if you've never followed a conflict that's drenched in propaganda & lies before - this is worth a listen.

Some practical advice on what to share & what not to share: https://t.co/yVPFkBWGif

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

THREAD: I keep being asked when we can go "back to normal" or "like it was before". My personal thoughts:

We've added a new disease to our population, more infectious and more severe than flu.

The world pre 2020 no longer exists - we may want it to, but it just doesn't. 1/13

[Anton Tsitsulin @graph_]

Only in Moscow there are billboard ads for Python packages.

Bonus: Moscow State’s main building in the background.