Google Makes Embedding Projector an Open Source Project (betanews.com)

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Google Makes Embedding Projector an Open Source Project (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday December 12, 2016 @07:30AM from the affinity-for-open-source dept.

Reader BrianFagioli writes: One of the best way to digest and present data is with visualizations and dashboards. Not everyone is a data scientist, so how you tell a story matters. Today, Google is making a rather nifty data visualization tool an open source project. Called "Embedding Projector", it can show what the search giant calls high-dimensional data. "To enable a more intuitive exploration process, we are open-sourcing the Embedding Projector, a web application for interactive visualization and analysis of high-dimensional data recently shown as an A.I. Experiment, as part of TensorFlow. We are also releasing a standalone version at projector.tensorflow.org, where users can visualize their high-dimensional data without the need to install and run TensorFlow," says Google.

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TRUMP 2016! by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-12 07:40 · Score: -1

Make Murika Great Again!
1. Re:TRUMP 2016! by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-12 08:09 · Score: -1
  
  Shouldn't that be "Trump 2017"?
No by sexconker · 2016-12-12 08:15 · Score: -1, Flamebait

One of the best way to digest and present data is with visualizations and dashboards.
No. Fuck no. Dashboards are universally awful and visualizations range from being acceptable but oversimplified to being tools for outright lying about your data set.
Do your statistical analysis however you please as long as you show your work, justify your methodology, and still provide the full fucking data set for review.
Case in point: The global warming conspiracy.
1. Re: No by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-12 08:27 · Score: 1
  
  "conspiracy"?
2. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-12 08:42 · Score: -1
  
  Case in point: The global warming conspiracy.
  MOOOOO says the denialist cow!
3. Re: No by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-12 08:49 · Score: 0
  
  Yeah, an international conspiracy between scientists, thermometer manufacturers, rain dancers, pyromaniac eskimos, Greenpeace and Shell. The whole thing was uncovered by ExxonMobil.
4. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-12 10:33 · Score: 0
  
  Well he thinks dashboards are useless, presumably replaced by a team of PhD statisticians representing all mainstream political platforms and a delegation from the UN representing all sovereign nations to provide every single digested form of raw data easily pushing the exabyte range. Because, you know, all abstractions and simplifications are for climate-conspiracy-mongering libtard cuck snowflakes. Also this is why any programming language that isn't machine assembly is for hipsters and loser neckbeards.
5. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-12 11:05 · Score: 0
  
  No. Fuck no. Dashboards are universally awful and visualizations range from being acceptable but oversimplified to being tools for outright lying about your data set.
  Then maybe you're just doing it wrong, if you're just taking a visualization at face value and then making impactful decisions without looking at the data that supports it then you're an idiot.
  But by all means give us some examples of how you've had the wool pulled over your eyes by these visualizations. My bet is you're just another slashdot naysayer desperately trying to find some way to be negative about any kind of new product or technology or project, we see it here all the time.
6. Re:No by epine · 2016-12-12 12:52 · Score: 1
  
  Hate to disappoint you, but the carbon-dioxide externality cartel is no better at showing their workings. Sometimes I doubt they even have any, unless it resembles a menu at a fancy, five-star French restaurant.
  Likewise, I have nothing against smokers, though it sure would be great if they never exhaled.
7. Re: No by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-12 14:16 · Score: 0
  
  Yes well it's largely your fault. You and your methane.
Sharia Law in England by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-12 08:51 · Score: -1

A Muslim in England is not subject to the same laws you are. They have their own Sharia court system and the government can't touch them. There are entire areas of England where the police are not permitted to go, because it's governed by Sharia law, not British law. Muslims also don't pay any taxes because it's against their religion. Christians have to pay taxes. Do you think this is fair? Why do Muslims get special treatment in England? If you're not angry you should be. What are you going to do about it? You can sit on your ass or you can act now.
1. Re:Sharia Law in England by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-12 08:55 · Score: -1
  
  [Citation needed]
2. Re: Sharia Law in England by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-12 08:57 · Score: -1
  
  Literally entirely bollocks like so much put out by the racist idiots who currently focus on Muslims.
Embedding Projector or Bullshit Projector by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-12 09:59 · Score: 0

Maybe Google could cram in a few more buzzwords?