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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?
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.
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?
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.
And I rarely cover recent work.
> 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.
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.