May 16Are You Insecurely Attached to the Instagram Algorithm?A Mental ExerciseSocial Media11 min readSocial Media11 min read
May 4Six Months SoberDid you know when you sit down to write a Medium post it says “Tell your story…” Oh, Medium, I have so many stories. Today I feel like writing about sobriety though. I just passed the six month mark from the last time I drank. …Sobriety6 min readSobriety6 min read
Jun 6, 2022Building everyday algorithmic literacy: marginalized users point out how ad recommender systems can fail⭐ This work was recently published in ICWSM ’22: Developing self-advocacy skills through Machine Learning Education: the Case of Ad Recommendation on Facebook Feel free to watch this 5 minute talk instead of reading this blog post: The One Sentence Summary We showed 77 social media users their own Facebook Ad Interest data and taught them about the recommender algorithm User-based Collaborative Filtering and they learned successfully…Machine Learning6 min readMachine Learning6 min read
Jan 5, 2022Teaching Machine Learning with Social Media ExamplesIf you’ve ever tried to learn machine learning (ML), you’ve probably seen images like this:Machine Learning8 min readMachine Learning8 min read
Apr 23, 2021Autism Appreciation Month: Things You Need to KnowApril is Autism Acceptance Month, previously known as Autism Awareness Month (and perhaps in the future to be known as Autism Appreciation Month!) Like anything that is starting to shift in the public eye, there is a long history of social justice, community experiences, and hard work behind the movement…Autism8 min readAutism8 min read
Feb 21, 2021The Beep-Boopers and the Anti-Beep-Boopers and how together we can make sense of Big DataThe Beep-Boopers I used to be a beep-booper. As I learned about Data Science I saw all the possibilities and wanted to change the world with data. I dreamed up apps and inventions and ideas that would use Big Data for good! I could use all my skills and methods to radically…Data Science5 min readData Science5 min read
Jan 26, 2021The Rookie Primer on Responsible A.I.A list of resources for anyone curious about fairness, accountability, ethics, social justice, transparency, and/or explainability as it pertains to Data Science. These are mostly Yim-centric for now, so I gladly invite collaboration and edits! Algorithmic BiasData Science10 min readData Science10 min read
Dec 28, 2020A trauma-informed PhD pathFrom my research, to teaching, to actually caring for my human suit along the way, I’ll lay out what a trauma-informed PhD path can look like for you and/or your students. Mental health is more than just self-carePhD9 min readPhD9 min read
Oct 19, 2020Data as an open relationship (with boundaries)This one is for the non-monogamous, polyamorous, questioning academics out there, who can relate to the framework of polyamory as a way to describe “open data”. Yesterday my brain was inspired by Yanni Alexander Loukiassas asking the question: “what is ‘open’ in relationship to data?” Yanni is a professor of…Polyamory5 min readPolyamory5 min read
Sep 1, 202010 ways to integrate Social Justice into teaching Data ScienceWhether it’s a formal classroom or a corporate team meeting, here’s a list of things I’ve come across in my experience to integrate Social Justice into teaching Data Science. Use real-world data… carefullyArtificial Intelligence8 min readArtificial Intelligence8 min read
