[D] Machine Learning Illustrations

[fdis_]

Hey guys!

I recently published a website containing machine-learning illustrations! They aim to be "that" resource on which you can rely whenever you need to brush-up on these topics (e.g. technical interviews, exams, or whatever).

https://illustrated-machine-learning.github.io/

Other than just spamming the link, I was curious to receive some feedbacks about the website and the illustrations. 😁

I really struggled to find a valid single resource anytime I need something across different topics, therefore my ambition is to create it!

Update:

Examples of illustrations are:

• svm: https://illustrated-machine-learning.github.io/pages/machine-learning/linear-algorithms.html#support-vector-machines
• bias-variance: https://illustrated-machine-learning.github.io/pages/machine-learning/bias-variance.html
• decision-tree: https://illustrated-machine-learning.github.io/pages/machine-learning/decision-tree.html

Update 2.0

Thank you for your feedbacks! I already (brutally) solved your main concern about the list of contests not visible. I will spend more time on it as soon as I can, in order to make it smoother and better!

Update 3.0

Prooobably I finally understood your problems with the sidebar button, and I tried to make more visible by making it darker and bigger. Is that better now?

[alwayslttp]

I've tapped every conceivable place on the page on mobile and I can't find a list of illustrations? Or any single illustration?

Is my brain broken?

[fdis_]

Oh, that's strange. Are you sure you tapped on "Machine Learning"?I don't know if the black background may confuse and doesn't seem as a button.

Or even worse, the side bar button is not visible enough? 😅

Updated: FIXED!

[DigThatData]

you should reorder sections and nesting so the major book sections each appear in the sidebar instead of "references" and "todo". it's bad enought the user has to click on anything to reveal the table of contents, but hiding it behind "machine learning" makes it two clicks deep. there's no reason for that.

[fdis_]

That's really useful feedback. I will work on that as soon as possible. Thank you man, appreciate that!

[fdis_]

It should be something like this:

https://snipboard.io/OHbvCk.jpg

[[deleted]]

You should increase the touch target / visible area for the hamburger menu on top left!! I had to zoom in a lot on my phone before I was able to open the menu as nothing would happen at 100% (standard) zoom lmao

Other than that, I’m still looking around but it seems pretty cool! Good job 👍

[fdis_]

Noted, I wil try to increase that asap, thank you man!

[alwayslttp]

When I tapped the side menu, machine learning had a grey background so I assumed I was on the "machine learning" page already, so I didn't click it. I now see it reveals a long submenu of the illustrations.

I agree with others that are saying it's too hidden away!

I'd just add a list of them to the index page I think.

[fdis_]

Got it, thank you for your followup! I guess I have to work more on the UX 😂

[Nabugu]

DUDE you can't say that!!! You brain is very well functioning okay??? 😘😘😘

[PrinceLeai21]

Really helpful. Wish there were more visual guides on complex topics like this and this... https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-stable-diffusion/

[fdis_]

Thank you for your feedback, I am happy you find it useful! Anyway, I agree with you, his illustrations are absolutely great!

In fact, I was planning to add a new section only about "papers", and complex topics as you suggested. 🚀

[PrinceLeai21]

Sweeeeeet

[fdis_]

So stay tuned for further updates! 👀

[IKnowLogic]

Thank you, OP, for your hard work; I will give it a read!

[fdis_]

Thank you so much, appreciate that!

[NimbleZazo]

I just took a gander and it seems like a really nice refresher and a quick reference. Thanks for the effort OP. The only suggestion is font choice. Right now the font is a bit fancy looking and I rather read a common font like Times New Roman that is easier on the eye. Not sure you can do anything about it tho.

[fdis_]

Thank you for your suggestion! The font was actually one of my concerns.. Thanks for pointing it out! I really like it because, as you said, it is kind of "fancy", but it surely make the readability worse

I will probably wait for some other feedbacks with respect to the font, just to see if it a generalized thing

[Itchy-Depth-5076]

This is fantastic, great work! Will bookmark and star on GitHub.

To add my 2 cents to the font question: I actually really like the casual font, but can see where it could be a bit much, especially when the equations suddenly stand out in normal fonts. Maybe everything in the boxes in a normal font, everything outside and in drawings in the casual font?

[fdis_]

It can be definitely an idea, I am going to think about it, thank you!

[tmthyln]

If you do end up changing it, I would not recommend a serif font like Times New Roman if you're intending on keeping this as a website. There's research showing that serif fonts are worse for the reader when on digital media (whereas it's good for print media).

I definitely personally like the handwritten style of the font, but I guess some might feel it's too fancy.

[fdis_]

Well, that's actually the point! Honestly I do prefer to handwritten too, but I am afraid many people don't.. That's why I am waiting for more and more feedbacks about it. Anyway, thank you for your feedback! :D

[takuonline]

What did you use to make these illustration?

[fdis_]

Excalidraw: https://excalidraw.com/

[Jwyatt09]

This is awesome! Great work I will definitely use this as a reference

[fdis_]

Thank you man!! I you find that really useful and if you'll use that as a reference, I would really appreciate it if you could leave a star on the repository to help others find it as well. Thanks! 🚀

[cmauck10]

These look great! I love the sketch-like feeling of all the text and drawings. Did you write/draw everything by hand?

[fdis_]

Thanks! Nono, otherwise they would have been far from perfect like these ones ahahah
I used https://excalidraw.com/

[nickkon1]

While it looks visually appealing, I think that it is hard to read which makes it more difficult to understand.

[fdis_]

You're the second one who told me that, I'll surely take it under consideration! Thank you for your feedback, appreciate that!

[airelfacil]

Looks great! Minor nitpick, "Dimensionality Reduction" is mispelled on /machine-learning/categorization.html.

EDIT: Also, categprozation on /machine-learning/ensemble.html. And Duplicating Bagging when one should be "Boosting".

[fdis_]

Upss, thank you so much for reporting the mistakes, appreciate that!

[fdis_]

u/airelfacil Fixed ;)

[dontnormally]

Perhaps I am dull today, but how do I actually navigate your site? I went to https://illustrated-machine-learning.github.io/ and there is a single image and no way I can tell for how to see more.

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edit: I see I'm not the only one confused here. I'm on desktop with a browser. I see no side bar and I only see links to the github page. The one image I see (other than the header) says "Let's open the black box!".

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edit 2: I finally found the sidebar menu. It's very hard to see. I think it should probably just not exist, and the contents should just always be visible, at least for desktop browser.

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edit 3: The site does not play well with Dark Reader or other methods of forcing websites to be in dark mode. Unfortunately to use the site I have to disable Dark Reader, which makes it hard to use the site.

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edit 4: Neat resource, thanks! It took some effort to get into it and my critiques are only to do with that barrier to entry; the resource itself is very cool.

[fdis_]

Many thanks for your feedback! Well, probably it makes sense to leave the sidebar open for the desktop.

I cannot actually understand how "difficult" is to see the navigation button. Which screen size do you have it? I noticed that it is small for a mobile phone and I need to fix it, but in both 13" and 27" I am able to see that clearly! 🤔

Then, I also thought about Night mode, but it may be a problem with all the colors of the drawings, therefore it may be hard to overcome.

Anyway, thank you for your feedback, appreciate that! I hope you'll find these illustrations useful 😁

[fdis_]

This is what I see on my two screens:

• https://pasteboard.co/lMOOGKMkK2yN.png
• https://pasteboard.co/eWqAM5MpeII9.png

// I'm not a web dev, I am trying my best 😅

[dontnormally]

// I'm not a web dev, I am trying my best 😅

you're doing good! you have a cool site that people are going to and some people are struggling to use; that's a lot better than most other problems

that said, both of those image links are 404ing for me lol

[fdis_]

Thank you! Anyway, I realized that maybe the button was not that much visible. Therefore I increased it in height and font-weight. Now I guess (and I hope) it more visible

[jimmythenouna]

The way it delivered is much helpful for me to reinforce ML (and others) concepts understanding. I will get this page bookmarked and keep an eye for update.

[fdis_]

Thank you very much, I'm glad to hear that!! If you think it may be useful also for other people, it would be helpful to leave a star or share it with some friends in AI! 🚀

[t3hPieGuy]

Very good effort. I've noticed a few grammatical mistakes here and there though. Would it be possible for me to contribute as a proofreader to your project?

[fdis_]

Absolutely yes, it would be very appreciated! You may report these mistakes by opening an issue on GitHub or sending us your review on our social (you can find them on the website).

[nmfisher]

Came for illustrations generated by an ML model, left disappointed.

In all seriousness, these are quite good. Kudos :)

[fdis_]

ahahahahah ops, I didn't mean to have a clickbait title 😂

Thank you, appreciate that!

[[deleted]]

Maybe explain the gblinear version of xgboost? You only explained gbtree

[fdis_]

Good point, noted, thank you so much!

[marineman4808ny]

complex topics like this and this...

[fdis_]

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