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The State of Data Curation at NeurIPS: An Assessment of Dataset Development Practices in the Datasets and Benchmarks Track

2024
Bhardwaj, E., Gujral, H., Wu, S., Zogheib, C., Maharaj, T., & Becker, C.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track (NeurIPS D&B).
[pdf] [arxiv] [code] [talk] [poster]

Limits at a Distance: Design Directions to Address Psychological Distance in Policy Decisions Affecting Planetary Boundaries

2024
Bhardwaj, E., Qiao, H., & Becker, C.
In Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Computing within Limits.
[pdf] [talk]

Machine learning data practices through a data curation lens: An evaluation framework

2024
Bhardwaj, E., Gujral, H., Wu, S., Zogheib, C., Maharaj, T., & Becker, C.
In The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT).
[pdf] [arxiv] [talk]

Pathways to urban sustainability: Design perspectives on a data curation and visualization platform

2023
Bhardwaj, E.*, Qiao, H.*, & Becker, C.
In Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Computing within Limits.
[pdf]

Is the climate getting WARMer? A framework and tool for climate data comparison

2023
Bhardwaj, E., & Khaiter, P.
Published in The Journal of Environmental Modelling & Software.
[pdf]

What data analytics can or cannot do for climate change studies: An inventory of interactive visual tools

2023
Bhardwaj, E., & Khaiter, P.
Published in the Journal of Ecological Informatics.
[pdf]

This talk is about our paper accepted at the 2024 NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks track. Our paper provides an analysis of dataset development practices at NeurIPS through the lens of data curation. We present an evaluation framework for dataset documentation and we use the framework to assess the strengths and weaknesses in current dataset development practices of 60 datasets published in the NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks track from 2021-2023.


Our paper, discussed in this talk, lays out how future research on the impacts of alternative design approaches on psychological distance can make data used for policy decisions more tangible and visceral. It was accepted at the Tenth Workshop on Computing within Limits (LIMITS 2024).


This talk presents our FAccT 2024 paper in which we explored how the dataset development process within ML research can be made more transparent and accountable by applying a data curation lens.


I was granted a competitive travel award to attend the Research Data Alliance 20th Plenary Meeting in 2023. As part of this, I participated in an interview for early career researchers in data management.


Supporting Responsible Machine Learning by Improving Data Curation

DECEMBER 2024
Bhardwaj, E. & Becker, C.
Abstract submission and poster presentation at the 19th Women in Machine Learning (WiML) Workshop at NeurIPS.
[poster]

Pathways to urban sustainability: Design perspectives on a Toronto-based data curation and visualization platform

OCTOBER 2024
Bhardwaj, E. & Qiao, H.
Poster presentation at the Beatrice and Arthur Minden Symposium on the Environment.
[poster]

Data Practices in Decision-Making for Environmental Sustainability

OCTOBER 2023
Bhardwaj, E.
Abstract submission to the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) workshop on Data-Enabled Sustainability.

Data Curation for Community Empowerment in Machine Learning Research

OCTOBER 2023
Bhardwaj, E.
Abstract submission to the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) workshop on Data-Enabled Sustainability.

Visualization tools for climate data analytics

JULY 2022
Bhardwaj, E. & Khaiter, P.
Abstract submission to the 2022 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software and Science Based Decision Making.
[talk]

Data Analytics Approach to Climate Change Studies

DECEMBER 2021
Bhardwaj, E. & Khaiter, P.
Abstract submission and oral presentation to the 2021 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation.
[talk]

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