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Vivek Katial
@vivekkatial.bsky.social
🎗Executive Director @ gooddatainstitute.com
👨‍👩‍👦 Data and Founding Team @ multitudes.co
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#pyconau @vivekkatial.bsky.social A case study on building our first LLM feature – how to balance speed + quality http://youtu.be/N7vV23muhMY
September 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Using research and feedback to build safe and ethical AI. @lpeate.bsky.social and @vivekkatial.bsky.social #yowtls25
June 17, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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@honeycomb.io needed to track and report the human impact of on-call alerts.

Together, we co-designed a solution that cut their reporting time by 90% and provided transparent reporting on the impact of alerts.

Read here: www.multitudes.com/success-stor...
April 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Proud to share our original research, now available on arXiv! Co-authors, @uvic.ca PhD candidate Alessandra M Paz Milani, @margaretstorey.bsky.social, @vivekkatial.bsky.social, and @lpeate.bsky.social explore how engineering teams take action on data in retros. Read more👇

arxiv.org/abs/2502.03570
Exploring Retrospective Meeting Practices and the Use of Data in Agile Teams
Retrospectives are vital for software development teams to continuously enhance their processes and teamwork. Despite the increasing availability of objective data generated throughout the project and...
arxiv.org
April 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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OpenAI has to be the most insufferable company in the world. They can steal from the whole world & guzzle all resources. But no one can give them a taste of their own medicine even a little bit.

How long till they use this to say give us even more resources & this is why we can't release anything.
January 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
We're hosting an important discussion on AI's gender bias challenges!

Join @jrosenbaum.com.au for the Multitudes #TechLeaderChat exploring how AI systems oversimplify & misinterpret gender identity.

I watched one of her talks at PyCon AU and it was ️‍🔥 ️‍🔥

www.meetup.com/tech-leader-...
How to overcome AI’s biased perceptions of gender, Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 11:00 AM | Meetup
**How to overcome AI’s biased perceptions of gender** In a world where AI increasingly shapes how we see and represent ourselves, understanding how these systems interpret
www.meetup.com
January 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
In 2018 this study from Stanford showed that while 75% of nonprofits collect data, only 6% use it effectively (ssir.org/articles/ent...)
Creating a Data Culture (SSIR)
How nonprofit organizations can do a better job with their data.
ssir.org
December 17, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇

Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles.

PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...
December 16, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Our community for Tech Leader Chats has hit 800 members! 🎉

We’re thrilled to hit this milestone, as our group continues to grow and be a place where engineering, product, and data leaders come to learn, grow, and connect.
December 9, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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The Marsden Fund was set up to support pure research. Diverting half of it to fund applied research undermines New Zealand’s potential to generate ideas that underpin commercial success.
Funding research for economic return sounds good – but that’s not how science really works
The Marsden Fund was set up to support pure research. Diverting half of it to fund applied research undermines New Zealand’s potential to generate ideas that underpin commercial success.
theconversation.com
December 5, 2024 at 10:16 PM
@mmitchell.bsky.social if you're trying to report on intersectional accuracy without access to self-reported AND consented sensitive variables - any practices you recommend for still meaningfully reporting on potential intersectional biases? "perceived" measures would just reinforce existing biases
December 5, 2024 at 11:32 PM
@allenholub.bsky.social “10X programmers actually slow down software delivery” — eventually leading to a steady state where all knowledge is concentrated in one person and they become a key person risk and bottleneck #yow24
December 5, 2024 at 10:21 PM
We did a cool collab with Just Reinvest NSW.

A shiny dashboard that maps Indigenous incarceration rates and justice spending across NSW communities.

Check it out here: www.gooddatainstitute.com/post/empower...
Empowering Indigenous Communities with Data - Just Reinvest NSW
Just Reinvest NSW (JR NSW) is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated towards improving justice outcomes for Aboriginal people.
www.gooddatainstitute.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:50 AM
👋 excited to join Bluesky! Keen to see chats on data / ML for social impact.

Here’s hoping this platform doesn’t turn into X/Twitter 🤣
December 5, 2024 at 2:42 AM