Senior Data Scientist. MPP, Python developer. Interests in sustainability and access to information. @braunsk's other half. Views all my own!
Washington, DC
Joined April 2013
- Tweets522
- Following479
- Followers211
- Likes1.7K
Alex Miller retweeted
Prior to its closure, USAID was one of the world's largest funders of conservation work — per a recent @insideclimate piece featuring @AidData Chief Economist @ariel_benyishay . 🧵
Alex Miller retweeted
Fascinating: Maryland becomes first state govt to try to ship a textfile to help LLMs navigate government services (llms.txt)
Alex Miller retweeted
The Tidal Basin Welcome Area is open! If you’re coming to see the cherry trees, please:
🚶♀️🚴🏽🚇Walk, bike, or take Metro - there is limited parking and lots of traffic.
🌸Don't pick blossoms. Don't climb trees.
Plan your visit at nps.gov/cherry #WashingtonDC
ALT Thin tree branches covered in clusters of small pink buds reaching out over the calm waters of the Tidal Basin with the Washington Monument in the distance.
ALT Clusters of pink and green buds growing on a thin tree branch reaching out over a concrete pathway along the Tidal Basin.
ALT Dozens of people walking along a curing concrete path running next to the calm waters of the Tidal Basin with the Washington Monument in the distance.
ALT A park ranger in uniform and hat smiling and holding up a button that says "Cherry Blossom Protector."
Alex Miller retweeted
As the U.S. retreats from #ForeignAid, China is pushing forward, including for women’s development. But where & how has #China supported women’s development abroad thus far? Most projects support #health and job #training, with a focus in African countries. #IWD2025
Alex Miller retweeted
📊 Happy International #OpenDataDay!
We’re celebrating the power of open data to drive #aidtransparency, accountability & better decision-making
IATI’s #opendata standard helps governments, donors & civil society track development resources & results🧵👇
Alex Miller retweeted
Development Initiatives has now closed. You can still access the organisation's work at devinit.github.io
Alex Miller retweeted
USAID data - you can find information about #USAID activities and spending using the following sources:
publishwhatyoufund.org/2025/…
Updated 18 Feb 2025
ALT Screenshot of web page showing links to sources of data on USAID
Alex Miller retweeted
🏟️Announcing @MistralAI Saba, our first regional language model.
- Mistral Saba is a 24B parameter model trained on meticulously curated datasets from across the Middle East and South Asia.
- Mistral Saba supports Arabic and many Indian-origin languages, and is particularly strong in South Indian-origin languages such as Tamil and Malayalam.
Alex Miller retweeted
CARIBBEAN: Earthquake measuring 7.5 in the Caribbean Sea. TSUNAMI ADVISORY for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. (Source: PTWC)
Alex Miller retweeted
Proceeds from this Wednesday, 02/05, from our DC and MD restaurants will be donated to support @WCKitchen’s humanitarian efforts around the world.
You can also donate directly: wck.org/donate
Amazing what a little bit of data cleaning can do to a loss curve. Fixing about 2% of my labels for a small image classification model resulted in this night and day difference. Can you tell which loss curve is which?
26
Quick update to my last blog post: I've now included max pooling. It could be effective if some of the dimensions in BERT's embeddings aligned with your classification concept, but this appears to not be the case for gender-responsive aid.
alexkmiller.com/blog/2024/11…
1
25
I initially conducted this exploration to satisfy my own curiously while working on NLP models to classify gender-responsive aid, but I thought the results were worth writing up separately.
alexkmiller.com/blog/2024/11…
Give it a read and let me know what you think!
Alex Miller retweeted
Jon Stewart’s 2-minute history lesson here is worth everyone’s time before we start confidently breaking out our theories of what happened
My new blog post is live, describing how to build an NLP regression to quantify climate finance using the World Bank project API. Check it out if you're interested in climate finance or machine learning! alexkmiller.com/blog/2024/11…
Alex Miller retweeted
Relationships, learning and social change. Reflections on my October explorations. linkedin.com/pulse/relations…
#complexity #systemsthinking #emergence #governance #learning #relationships
ALT Graphic from USAID position paper on local systems, showing key elements of understanding and engaging the system
Early voting has started in Maryland! If you need a guide to make informed decisions about the ballot questions in Prince George's county, I recommend marylandmatters.org/2024/10/…
Alex Miller retweeted
The #humanitarian funding gap was the largest on record in 2023, and funding is set to fall in 2024. Our new report explores the latest #data on global humanitarian assistance and assesses progress by the #GrandBargain on improving humanitarian action
devinit.org/resources/fallin…
Alex Miller retweeted
DI's Director of Influence and Growth @FionnaCSmyth on how @AnnelieseDodds and the new #UK government can show leadership on #development and rebuild trust with partners in the Global South:
devinit.org/blog/a-chance-to… @bondngo
Alex Miller retweeted
THREAD: The @aidtransparency #2024Index results are out. See all the results from the 50 donors assessed.
publishwhatyoufund.org/the-i…
Follow the launch event at 9:30 EDT, 2:30 BST today: brookings.edu/events/aid-tra…
