Author: lnbressa

What is Responsible and Sustainable Data?

Data Usage, Health Data, Sustainability

Author: Linnet Taylor, Nadezhda Purtova; Publisher: SAGE Journals; Publication Year: 2019. The following article proposes the question of how should data scientists go about making data science a sustainable practice. The authors put forth a…
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The Ethics of Big Data as a Public Good: Which Public? Whose Good?

Big Data, Data Sharing, Digital Data, Public Good, Responsible Data Movement

Author: Linnet Taylor; Publisher: The Royal Society; Publication Year: 2016. The following article describes how international development and humanitarian organizations are increasingly calling for digital data to be treated as a public good because of…
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Protecting Individual-Level Census Data with Differential Privacy

Census Data, Data Granularity, Personal Identifiable Information, PII, Right to Privacy

Author: N/A; Publisher: Linear Digressions; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode introduces the idea of personal identifiable information (PII) in reference to census data and weighs the importance of the granularity of data against…
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Racism, the Criminal Justice System, and Data Science

Algorithms, Ethnic Bias, Racial Bias

Author: N/A; Publisher: Linear Digressions; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode discusses how regardless of whether race or ethnicity is included in your algorithm, correlated variables can still instill biases. The variables selected may…
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A Data Science Take on Open Policing Data

Data Quality, Policing, Self-Reporting Bias

Author: N/A; Publisher: Linear Digressions; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode discusses how the quality of data around policing is hit-and-miss based on region. Reporters of data are those being scrutinized, so there is…
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Justice for “Data Janitors”

Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Data Cleaning, Displaced Work, Machine Learning, Mechanical Turk, Training Data

Author: Lilly Irani; Publisher: Public Books; Publication Year: 2015. The following article describes how when things in the technology world become automated, the work that is being “replaced” is not actually replaced, but displaced. For…
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Gender and Representation Bias in GPT-3 Generated Stories

Algorithms, Gender Bias, Gender Stereotypes, GPT-3, Natural Language Processing Technology

Author: Li Lucy, David Bamman; Publisher: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding; Publication Year: 2021. The following article talks about how GPT-3 is a commercially available natural language generator that has been shown…
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The Ethics of Data Science

Automation, Data Citizens, Decision-Making, Human Impact, Ledgers, Machine Intelligence, Micro-Targeting, Personal Data, Private Data

Author: Lee Schlenker; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2019. The following article introduces the concept of data science by first stating the importance and the reach that data scientists have in the world. Data scientists help…
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Experts Doubt Ethical AI Design Will Be Broadly Adopted as the Norm Within the Next Decade

Artificial Intelligence, Elon University, Ethical Principles, Profit-Seeking, Social Control

Author: Lee Rainie, Janna Anderson, Emily A. Vogels; Publisher: Pew Research Center; Publication Year: 2021. The following article opens up by describing the pervasive and ever-expanding role artificial intelligence (AI) has taken up in our…
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