Dr. Valerie Barr Profile
Dr. Valerie Barr

@vbarr4

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My CS motto: just because we can, should we?

Joined July 2011
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Dr. Valerie Barr
10 months
Sometimes the Hudson Valley is amazing!
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10 months
If you haven’t already trained your TAs in identity inclusive approaches, what are you waiting for????.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
10 months
Great trip to DC. Did the obligatory family stuff but also had our usual wonderful dinner @DasEthiopian and heard great music @bluesalley.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
10 months
NSF reviewer honorarium is down to $200/day!?!?! If you spend 1 hr/proposal reading, and 2 six hour panel days, thats ~$9/hour. Pretty shameful on the part of NSF.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
11 months
I was this many computer user years old when I learned that I can combine PDFs using Finder!!! Especially handy when Acrobat doesn't like something and won't do it.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
11 months
Hey @nytimes, seems like whoever makes your weather maps needs a geography lesson!! Flagstaff is not in New Mexico (print edition, Highlight map).
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Dr. Valerie Barr
11 months
Just starting to plan a 1/2 semester "Algorithmic Bias & Data Ethics" course. There's loads of great material but I'm obviously limited in what I can include in 8 weeks. What are your top 3 picks for "must have" material?.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
1 year
Non-teachers don't understand that prep for each class session is the process of writing a script for a play, with build up and resolution, visuals, audience participation, no 4th wall. This is why it takes TIME.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
1 year
A complete pleasure to work with @CarlaBrodley & @mapq on this paper!.
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Dr. Manuel A. Pérez Quiñones 🇵🇷✊🏽
1 year
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Dr. Valerie Barr
1 year
RT @AJLUnited: In celebration of Women's Equality Day, we're highlighting last fall's @RollingStone Magazine feature by Lorena O'Neil (@lor….
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Dr. Valerie Barr
1 year
Stuck with Panetta droning on when we could've had @Ruwa4Georgia.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
1 year
AOC for President in. checks calendar. 2036?.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
1 year
It's an honor to be part of the work that these two lead. CS colleagues -- if you haven't done the 3C Fellows program yet, what are you waiting for? And check out the AiiCE resources.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
1 year
As if it wasn't already bad enough that in the US there are more guns than people, but now there are bullet vending machines. In grocery stores! And they trust AI & facial recognition to be sure buyers are of legal age. Is there no end to this madness???.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
1 year
A chance to talk about work I’ve been doing for a very long time. An opportunity to explain why this data analysis approach is critical for understanding exactly who is and is not coming into computing.
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Communications of the ACM
1 year
Co-author @VBarr4 (@BardCollege) discusses "Visualizing Progress in Broadening Participation in Computing: The Value of Context"(, and describes new ways of analyzing degree data in an original video.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
1 year
Time to rethink how you look at degree data! Thanks to @CarlaBrodley and @mapq for the wonderful collaboration!!.
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Communications of the ACM
1 year
"Visualizing Progress in Broadening Participation in Computing: The Value of Context," by @VBarr4 (@BardCollege), @CarlaBrodley (@KhouryCollege), @MAPQ (@UNCCharlotte), calls for better measures of CS degree data to account for changing demographics.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
1 year
This is the time to be thinking about adopting this in fall semester for your TAs.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
1 year
Just finished reading “The Storm We Made” by Vanessa Chan. Highly highly recommend!.
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Dr. Valerie Barr
1 year
As covers go, Tracy Chapman’s version of “Stand By Me” is in a league of its own!.
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