Reposted by Aditya ParameswaranColleen Chien @colleenchien.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Closed out the inaugural year of the Berkeley AI & Society social with a look at a new statewide police use-of-force + misconduct database built by Berkeley EECS, journalism, law, data science, and others, including at Stanford. ML+ other techniques+sweat pulled of the enormous data cleaning (1/3) 121
Reposted by Aditya ParameswaranAdam Marcus @marcua.net · 01/10/2025Beautiful nostalgic piece by @adityagp.bsky.social! Don't miss the end for some nice reflections. Aditya's just getting started! :) 141
Aditya Parameswaran @adityagp.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Blog Post: Looking back on the first decade as faculty (2014-2024). I list my favorite papers from the decade, why I enjoyed working on them, and provide backstory and reflection. data-people-group.github.io/blogs/2025/0...data-people-group.github.ioThe First Decade as Faculty - Looking BackA research blog on next-generation data infrastructure that is usable, intelligent, and efficient 140
Reposted by Aditya ParameswaranNACDL @nacdl.org · 04/08/2025🧵 A new public database, the Police Records Access Project, now makes 1.5 million pages of public records on police use of force and misconduct in California searchable for the first time. The project was led by @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social, @ucbids.bsky.social, and Stanford's Big Local News. 615773
Reposted by Aditya ParameswaranBerkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 06/08/2025“Inside California’s new police records database” - Spend a few minutes watching an interview with Cheryl Phillips (@cephillips.bsky.social) on KTVU Fox 2 (@ktvufox2.bsky.social) to hear more about the new database. www.ktvu.com/video/1686149 #AI #UCBerkeley #Stanford #localnewsktvu.comInside California’s new police records databaseCheryl Phillips, founder and co-Director of Big Local News at Stanford University, gives insight on new database giving Californians access to nearly one-point-five million pages of internal police re... 034
Reposted by Aditya ParameswaranBerkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Today, we celebrate the incredible work on the Police Records Access Project – a first-of-its-kind database in the nation. It took years of work by a multidisciplinary team of journalists, data scientists, lawyers and civil rights advocates. Learn more: bit.ly/4m5uDlu 13513
Reposted by Aditya ParameswaranUC Berkeley Journalism @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social · 04/08/2025New database just published by @latimes.com, @sfchronicle.com, @kqednews.kqed.org + CalMatters and built by Berkeley Journalism's IRP, @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social BIDS + @biglocalnews.bsky.social makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records. journalism.berkeley.edu/police-recor...journalism.berkeley.eduA new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police recordsFor Immediate Release August 4, 2025 Contact: Journalism@berkeley.edu A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records ... 39252
Reposted by Aditya ParameswaranFernando Pérez @fernandoperez.org · 25/02/2025We're hiring! Working with @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and the rest of our @aimatx.bsky.social team has been wonderful, but we have a lot more to accomplish. If you're interested AI, material science (theory + exp) and user-facing tools, join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/fperez...linkedin.com 022
Aditya Parameswaran @adityagp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024My periodic reminder to my CMU friends to get someone with any inkling of UI design to fix their letter upload portal. I don't know what to pick between "Submit" and "Upload Recommendation", and the dropdown forces me to make a choice even if I don't want to. cc @andypavlo.bsky.social @domoritz.de 150
Reposted by Aditya ParameswaranSam Stowers 🫡 @sammakesthings.bsky.social · 22/11/2024If you're at The Curve Conference this weekend, come dive into what the future of applied evals looks like! I'll be demo-ing EvalForge, an implementation of the "who validates the validators" paper with @weightsbiases.bsky.social Big thanks to @capetorch.bsky.social and Anish for their work here 262
Reposted by Aditya ParameswaranSam Stowers 🫡 @sammakesthings.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Thanks to the authors of the paper! @sh-reya.bsky.social @zamfi.bsky.social, Bjorn Hartmann, @adityagp.bsky.social and Ian Arawjo. Read it if you haven't: arxiv.org/abs/2404.12272arxiv.orgWho Validates the Validators? Aligning LLM-Assisted Evaluation of LLM Outputs with Human PreferencesDue to the cumbersome nature of human evaluation and limitations of code-based evaluation, Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to assist humans in evaluating LLM outputs. Yet LLM-... 062
Reposted by Aditya ParameswaranPVLDB @pvldb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Vol:17 No:12 → Dealing with Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Typos in Real-World Entity Matching 👥 Authors: Joshua Wu, Dixin Tang, Nithin V Chalapathi, Tristan Chambers, Julie Ciccolini, Cheryl Phillips, Lisa Pickoff-White, Aditya ... 📄 PDF: www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol17/p4104-tang… 061
Reposted by Aditya ParameswaranMadelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 04/11/2024First post here! I'm currently researching how LLMs can be grounded in tables, bc they're a goldmine for fresh domain data. We've now introduced the 🎯TARGET benchmark for evaluating table retrieval in RAG pipelines, e.g. QA/factver/text2sql: target-benchmark.github.io Thinking BM25? Think twice..🧵 1143
Reposted by Aditya ParameswaranBerkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 30/10/2024🎦 Watch the recording of @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social seminar at BIDS! "There is actually a lot of structured data available on the web.... But really, the task here is that we should be able to retrieve that easily." #datascience #structureddata #dataretrieval bids.berkeley.edu/news/madelon... 142