[colah3]

You're absolutely right that this is a lot of work, and not many ML researchers have all the skills needed for it.

In the short term, Distill's editorial assistance will help authors produce outstanding papers, although they need to be willing to work as well.

In the longer-term, I'd like to explore match making between data visualization people who would like to get into machine learning and machine learning researchers publishing papers.

And in the very long term, I think the right solution is to add a new component to the research ecosystem. Just like we we have people who specialize as research engineers, theoreticians, and experimentalists, I'd like to have a respected "research distiller" specialization. Eventually, I'd like to try and start special grants for research groups to have someone focused on this.

[pininja]

I fall into the longer-term category as a front end data visualization person who would like to learn more ML. Please reach out to me if you're looking for JS volunteer to help with code review, visualization polish, or implementing new visualizations.

[kowdermeister]

I already know a guy who's doing this. Although he chose to publish very short videos on various research (including many AI/ML), the concept and goal is more or less the same.

Two Minute Papers on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz/videos

[colah3]

Karoly does lovely work! :)

[Naracion]

As another designer + researcher with a varied background and an interest in data viz as well as ML, I am super interested in this as a potential contributor. I have experience creating an interactive visualization interface for simple ML algorithms (which has been used by professors in the life sciences department to understand / get a new perspective on what's happening). I would LOVE to be able to be involved with Distill.

I have actually been meaning to write a paper on my findings and have been looking for journals to write for. However it doesn't quite "fit" with most journals. Distill looks like it's more catered to "professional" machine learning people, at least for now. Is there any way that somebody with my background (design+data viz+development+interest and curiosity to learn ML) could be involved with Distill?

[colah3]

> Is there any way that somebody with my background (design+data viz+development+interest and curiosity to learn ML) could be involved with Distill?

Absolutely. We know a number of leading ML researchers who would love to publish papers as Distill articles but don't have the design/data vis skills. We'd like to facilitate collaborations which would lead to data vis people co-authoring cutting edge research papers.

[Naracion]

This is very exciting. How are you looking at facilitating these collaborations? Will there be a listing of sorts, where, say, ML researchers would say "I need a dataviz guy" and then dataviz specialists can apply, almost like a job (or rather more like matchmaking I guess--bad analogy)?

Or would said facilitation be done by the admins / editors / steering committee? If so, then how do you plan on finding dataviz people? I'm asking this in particular because I would imagine that people who have ML findings to talk about would probably contact you ("I researched such and such, and found such and such. Now I would love to publish in Distill"). But I wonder if data visualization specialists would do the same thing. Contacting with "hey, I love data viz, would love to collaborate with somebody looking for one" feels a little inappropriate to me.

Thoughts?

[francamps]

> In the longer-term, I'd like to explore match making between data visualization people who would like to get into machine learning and machine learning researchers publishing papers.

As a data viz person, I would be absolutely thrilled to work on this, I'm trying to scratch time here and there to position myself better in that respect, learning more and trying to bridge that gap.

[j2kun]

I left a comment on your blog announcement to this effect, but I'd love to be a "research distiller" :)

[reachtarunhere]

You already are. :) Love your blog.

[j2kun]

Well, to be paid as such :)

And I rarely cover recent work.

[lhnz]

  > In the longer-term, I'd like to explore match making
  > between data visualization people who would like to
  > get into machine learning and machine learning
  > researchers publishing papers.

I'm into data viz and interested in doing this. I'm currently plowing through the Fast.AI course, and was actually already considering creating visualisations to help test my thinking.