[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?