Publications by Corey Chivers
Weapons of Math Destruction – A Data Scientist’s Guide to Disarmament
I’ve had this book on pre-order since spring and it finally arrived on Friday. I subsequently devoured it over the weekend. The book lays out a clear and compelling case for how data-driven algorithms can become — in contrast to their promise of amoral objectivism — efficient means for reproducing and even exacerbating social inequalities ...
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Visualizing classifier thresholds
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between prediction models and the decisions that they influence. There is a lot of theory around this, but communicating how the various pieces all fit together with the folks who will use and be impacted by these decisions can be challenging. One of the important conceptual pieces is the li...
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NIPS 2017 Summary
Some (opinionated) themes and highlights from this year’s NIPS conference: Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Rstats – bayesianbiologist. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to ...
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Machine Learning for Health #NIPS2018 workshop call for proposals
The theme for this year’s workshop will be “Moving beyond supervised learning in healthcare”. This will be a great forum for those who work on computational solutions to the challenges facing clinical medicine. The submission deadline is Friday Oct 26, 2018. Hope to see you there! https://ml4health.github.io/2018/pages/call-for-papers.htm...
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Germination Project Fellows come to Penn
I was recently fortunate to be invited to speak with an impressive group of high-school students as a part of the Germination Project. They came to Penn to learn about innovation in health care and I spoke with them about how we’re using Data Science to improve patient outcomes. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the lin...
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Eigenvectors from Eigenvalues – a NumPy implementation
I was intrigued by the recent splashy result showing how eigenvectors can be computed from eigenvalues alone. The finding was covered in Quanta magazine and the original paper is pretty easy to understand, even for a non-mathematician. Being a non-mathematician myself, I tend to look for insights and understanding via computation, rather than str...
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The Treachery of Models
In Magritte’s famous 1929 painting The Treachery of Images, a pipe is depicted with the caption “Ceci n’est pas une pipe“, French for “This is not a pipe”. The seemingly dissonant statement under what is a very clearly depicted pipe forces the viewer to confront the distinction between the representation and the thing itself. The trea...
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