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It is recommended that you fill out the REAL ML worksheet while completing the activities outlined in REAL ML. 3 | 4 | For more information on how this tool was created, you can read the full FAccT paper, REAL ML: Recognizing, Exploring, and Articulating Limitations of Machine Learning Research. 5 | 6 | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License. 7 | 8 | ### Cite the original paper: 9 | Jessie J. Smith, Saleema Amershi, Solon Barocas, Hanna Wallach, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan. REAL ML: Recognizing, Exploring, and Articulating Limitations of Machine Learning Research. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2022. 10 | 11 | ### Contact the research team: 12 | If you have questions about this tool, the paper, or the studies conducted to create this tool please feel free to reach out to the research team by email at realml [at] microsoft [dot] com 13 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /REAL ML Worksheet.docx: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jesmith14/REAL-ML/da57085972fb0f216e9955553de943593c808083/REAL ML Worksheet.docx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /REAL ML.pdf: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jesmith14/REAL-ML/da57085972fb0f216e9955553de943593c808083/REAL ML.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------------------