I Algorithms:

Machine Learning Cards

K12 Edition
 I Algorithms!
K12 Edition

Welcome to you print-at-home

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I Algorithms! I Algorithms!
cards to begin playing with I love...what? So...why do I need to know
algorithms. This deck can be An algorithm is a piece of computer anything about algorithms?
code that can take information and In order for the technologies of
used as-is, on its own, or go to tell us more about it. There are a lot today and tomorrow (and all of
[Link] of different types of algorithms used the things that they power) to
emerging-tech to pair with in machine learning. Machine learning represent all of us, they need to
other tools we're building. is a way to look at a lot of data where be built by all of us. You don’t
the computer learns and gets better need to be the coder, but you need
Spread the love... at learning over time. to know what the code can do.
Please use this deck, share it, If you understand what machine
This stack of cards describes six
and credit us. We would like to types of machine learning algorithms.
learning algorithms can do, you can
know how you use it. For more better envision the implications of
Since humans like different ways of
info visit [Link]. your designs. You can influence
learning, this stack of cards explains
conversations about data and bias.
machine learning algorithms in three
Credits different ways
I love Algorithms Deck
Carissa Carter, Megan Stariha
Gameboard and Dataset Cards
Megan Stariha, Asha Lamanque
Ariam Mogos
I love Algorithms K12 Edition
I Algorithms! I Algorithms!
Carissa Carter, Megan Stariha, Can my love run deeper
Asha Lamanque, Ariam Mogos. than these six algorithms? We hope you love this deck as
Of course. This deck includes the much as you love algorithms!
Illustrations basic types of machine learning This project was created by the
Carissa Carter algorithms, but there are many ways Stanford [Link]. The [Link]
to expand on this content in future helps people develop their creative
Design Direction versions. One concept we have not abilities. It’s a place, a community,
Daniel Frumhoff covered here is deep learning. Deep and a mindset. As designers and
learning is a type of machine learning educators, we believe in providing
*Please do not repurpose where the computer learns what to radical access to the intersection of
do without being explicitly technology and design.
without attribution. programmed to do so. It is the
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Association Association Association
Association is when there is
a strong relationship
between two or more things If someone likes to create short
based on a theme or idea. videos are they 80% more likely
to have TikTok?
If someone plays Minecraft
are they 70% more likely to
also play with LEGO bricks?

Clustering Clustering Clustering

Clustering is when the system Are any of these things
groups things or puts them related somehow?
I need to organize my favorite
together based upon their
songs, what types of
similarities.
playlists should I make?
You can cluster according to
genres of music like dance,
hip hop, pop, rock, electronic.

Dimensionality Dimensionality Dimensionality

Reduction Reduction Reduction
Dimensionality reduction is Can you just tell me what’s
where important information important in my data?
is highlighted when there is
a lot of data, so that we can
focus and maintain simplicity.
Reinforcement Reinforcement Reinforcement
Learning Learning Learning
Put your machine into a “I do not need you humans How do I win this game?
place and give it a goal or to teach me, I learn by trying How might this car drive itself?
a game. It starts to interact things on my own.”
and try to figure out what How do I learn which youtube
it should do to achieve the video to play next?
goal. It really wants to win!
This is a great algorithm
for programming robots.

Classification Classification Classification

This algorithm predicts Are you asking yourself…
what category something
Am I eating strawberry jam
might be put in. You (the
or strawberry jelly?
human) give it lots of data,
and you either tell it what Is this a picture of a seal
categories to pick from, or or a sea lion?
let it figure it out itself! Does the x-ray
show that the
student has a
broken finger?
Is that a
vegetable or
a fruit?

Regression Regression Regression

Regression is the Are you curious about….
relationship-finder. For “I wonder how much my
finding connections between pokemon cards will be
different things. It’s useful for worth in 30 years?!”
predicting (like the weather)
or for things where historical
events help suggest what
might happen in the future.
Give it the information and
example answers. It
compares its answers with
the right ones to get better.
I Algorithms:
Dataset Cards
K12 Edition
Disney Plus Spotify Biodiversity
This dataset lists the shows Contains 1,000,000 playlists,
Dataset
on Disney Plus with including playlist- and
The National Park Service
information regarding their track-level metadata (artist,
publishes a database of species
ratings and genres. songname, and song length).
identified in individual national
parks and details about the size
of the park and its climate.

Baked in bias:
Baked in bias: This dataset is dependent upon
This dataset contains Baked in bias: individual national parks that may
primarily English language 60% or more of the songs prioritize data collection differently,
movies and shows. and playlists are pop music. causing inaccuracies.

Cereals Wikipedia Sesame Street

This dataset lists the
Corpus Dataset Characters
nutritional value (calories,
All text on Wikipedia. It contains Dataset of over 1800 Sesame
percentage of daily values,
almost 1.9 billion words from Street characters from the
etc.) of major
more than 4 million articles. television series, including their
cereal brands
personality traits and interests.
along with how
they are served.

Baked in bias: Baked in bias:

Almost all of the cereals are Baked in bias: This dataset overly represents
gluten-based, there are very 84% of Wikipedia editors are Sesame Street characters
few gluten-free brands. male. A majority are 17-40. who are grumpy.

Census/ CelebA Dataset

Population Data This dataset contains more than
200,000 images of celebrity faces.
The census dataset includes
the age, sex, and occupation
for 23,000 US households.

Baked in bias: Baked in bias:

If people don't respond to the census, This dataset overly represents
they aren't counted, and census celebrities who are white and male.
data is only recorded every 10 years.