Machine learning…
to promote collective citizen capacity
Generation
- a dynamic representation of presidentially-relevant news
- but also, research questions
- and hands-on educational experiences
Inspiration
- polling aggregation, as epitomized by site’s like Nate Silver’s 538
- distant reading, not studying the news, but consuming a greater quantity of news via machine reading
Libraries! … Why this makes sense in my continually evolving understanding of libraries
- The vanguard of democratizing information by lowering barriers to access
- Connected to expansion from information access to information use
- Alignment with core library values: promoting equal information access and use, enabling democratic governance, and contributing to the public good.