Margaret Maynard-Reid

Published in The Startup

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The Art of Sketchnoting

Getting Started with Visual Thinking — Sketchnoting is a fun way to take notes with visual thinking. Using sketchnotes to summarize and visualize complex topics such as ML research papers, online courses or tech talks has greatly helped me to better understand / remember the topics, and share my knowledge with others. What I love the…

Sketchnote

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Published in The Startup

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My Journey of Becoming an Artist

Traditional, Digital and AI art — For the past year, I studied art fundamentals, learned how to draw and paint with traditional media and digital tools. As an ML engineer, I have been exploring how to use AI for art and design, which has become my focal interest. …

Art

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Published in The Startup

·Aug 9

Parsons Clo3D Virtual Fashion Design: Course 1

Getting started: Fundamentals of Clo3D — Margaret Maynard-Reid, AI engineer & artist I just finished the first course: Fundamentals of Clo3D from the Clo3D Virtual Fashion Design program by Parsons School of Design! I have learned so much from the 9 week course and would like to share my story. I have always had a special…

Fashion Design

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Published in Bootcamp

·Feb 24

How to create a beautiful blog post

An image is worth a thousand words — Written by Margaret Maynard-Reid, ML engineer & artist A few months ago, Sarah asked me a few questions about technical writing. I thought “why not just put my responses into a blog post”? …

Writing

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Published in Bootcamp

·Jan 26

My 2021 in review

Computer vision, art & design — I look back at my accomplishments in 2021. I worked on various applied ML projects from climate change, protecting sharks to art & design. Highlights include open-source projects, TensorFlow, computer vision, deep learning, art and design. As always, I have been busy learning and sharing my knowledge with the community! Applied ML projects ML4CC …

Deep Learning

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Published in Google Developers Experts

·Sep 24, 2021

Mentoring for TensorFlow GSoC 2021

TF-GAN, TF Model Garden & Hub, and TFLite — This year I was invited to be a mentor of the TensorFlow organization for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). During GSoC 2021, I mentored or co-mentored three students in these product areas: TensorFlow-GAN (TF-GAN), TensorFlow Model Garden & Hub, and TensorFlow Lite (TFLite). …

Tensor Flow

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Published in The Startup

·Jan 8, 2021

How I Prepared for the TensorFlow Developer Certification

Tips on How to Study, Prepare and Pass the Exam — I passed the TensorFlow Developer Certificate exam! Here is how I studied and prepared for it. Please note I was already familiar with TensorFlow and Deep Learning prior to taking the exam, so this post is most applicable to those with similar ML knowledge and skills level. Here is a…

Deep Learning

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How I Prepared for the TensorFlow Developer Certification

Jan 1, 2021

My 2020 in Review

My Accomplishments in 2020 — As year 2020 draws to a close, I’m looking back at my accomplishments in the past year. Highlights include open-source projects, TensorFlow Lite, computer vision, deep learning and Art. Awards & Recognition I was featured by @TensorFlow in a Google Developers blog — Celebrating International Women’s Day with 20 tech trailblazers. I…

Deep Learning

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Published in Google Developers Experts

·Nov 24, 2020

Create Artistic Effect by Stylizing Image Background — Part 1: Project Intro

Segmentation + Style Transfer — Written by Margaret Maynard-Reid, ML GDE This is part 1 of an end-to-end TensorFlow Lite tutorial written with a team effort, on how to combine multiple ML models to create artistic effects by segmenting an image and then stylizing the image background with neural style transfer. The tutorial is divided…

Deep Learning

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Create Artistic Effect by Stylizing the Image Background — Part 1: Project Intro

Published in Towards Data Science

·Nov 23, 2020

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Data Analysis and Visualization

Analyze and Visualize Artists and Artworks Metadata — The Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 400,000 artworks from around the world, near half of which are open access of unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use. In this blog post, I analyze and visualize the artists and artworks metadata of its collection. As of writing this blog post, there are…

Data Science

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Data Analysis and Visualization