No Classification without Representation: Assessing Geodiversity Issues in Open Data Sets for the Developing World · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1711.08536/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTNo Classification without Representation: Assessing Geodiversity Issues in Open Data Sets for the Developing World — mentioned by johnny313https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19372500urn:hackerpapers:mention:1711.08536:19372500Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:13:23 GMT<p>This reminds me of a paper put out by a few researchers at Google Brain: `No Classification without Representation: Assessing Geodiversity Issues in Open Data Sets for the Developing World` [0] The take away was that existing open image datasets are biased toward western contexts (eg what a wedding looks like), leading to low performance when applied in non-western contexts. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08536</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1711.08536/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>stat.ML