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Machine Learning & Ethics and Fairness

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Machine Learning & Ethics and Fairness

project: Case Studies in Machine Learning
Client /Prof: Junfeng Jiao
completion status: Started September 14th 2021
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: JP
description/plans: Design course icon, prepare AI files for animation, and create graphics suite.
To be completed: September 24th (icon) October 15th (complete)

Notes:

The focus of this course is technology (specifically machine learning is used to achieve goals. For the course logo, I was thinking maybe a magnifier glass zooming in on something machine learning related (honestly, we might be able to even use the machine learning logo but let me double check that one). Similarly to the ethics course, we’re quite open to anything.

 

 

project: Ethics and Fairness in AI
Client /Prof: Ken Fleischmann
completion status: Started September 14th 2021
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: N/A
description/plans: Design course icon, prepare file for animation, animate intro and create graphics suite.
To be completed: October 15th (complete)

Notes:

The focus of the course is to look at the ethics surrounding AI from different perspectives (including gender, race, etc.). For the course logo, Colin was thinking of something along the lines of maybe the ethics scale. But we are super open to any other ideas.

Week 3

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Project: COLA Website Refresher
Client /Prof: N/A (College of Liberal Arts)
Completion Status: Started August 25, 2021
Staff guidance: Michelle Vanhoose, Chris Rankin
STA team members: Ingrid, Adrian
description/plans: Get familiar with Pages and learn how to use it through trainings before ultimately using it for the COLA Website.
To be completed: TBD (long-term)

Hey everyone. This week I’ve mostly just been finishing up the last of my Pages trainings. I finished the 3 personal sites I made after they were deleted.

I also wrote the professional email that was sent to update my progress on my personal site and then started migrating some of the sites from the old CMS to this one. Here are a few of the sites below.

This week I started migrating actual pages and will continue to work on that.

Animation Refresh Notes

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Animation Refresh Notes

Completed Icons:

 

In-progress Icons:

  • Quiz
  • TA (rebranding)

 

Currently, we are working towards completing the last two animations in the animation refresh project.

For the Quiz icon, we are focusing on the timing and sequencing of the different frames in the animation. Once that is complete, this animation should be completed too.

The TA icon is undergoing a complete rebrand. The icon looks too similar to the chat icon and we want to distinct between them. Therefore, Rachel will be working on a new design for this icon.

Traveling for free

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Traveling the world for free this week

This week, I’ve worked a lot on the stinger animations in After Effects and finding street-level images in various cities throughout Africa for Dr. Gordon’s AFR 303 class.

 

Maddy had the great idea of using Google Street View, combined with basic tourist sites, to find the city skyscraper-type pictures that Dr. Gordon wanted. It was pretty successful, although I spent a lot of time hopping around Accra, Ghana for a good shot. Once I took screenshots, I did some color correction, cropped to the correct aspect ratio, and erased Google’s street names with the clone stamp tool when necessary. Here are some of the edited versions.