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Dollar Street Supplementary Information [FINAL]
The subtext to each question is initalics.Theanswers are in plain text with no formatting. Was there a specific gap that needed to be filled?Please provide a description.The Dollar Street dataset is a supervised image dataset derived from Gapminder'sDollar Street project (https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street)that It was created with three goals in mind:1. Make available a highly curated set of images with valuable metadata (e.g.country, monthly income) that is more closely representative of the geographicand socioeconomic diversity of the world when compared with existing imagedatasets.2. Help combat bias in downstream applications (e.g.
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