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Can You Hear the Will of the People in the Vote? Assessing Fairness in Redistricting via Monte Carlo Sampling
Author: Jonathan Mattingly; Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Publication Year: 2021. The following video is the author presenting his research on how local, state, and national elections depend on the underlying maps that…
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Ethical Hurdles to Combating Racially Biased Police Algorithms
Author: Jonathan Hofer; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2020. The following article focuses on Cincinnati but is applicable nationwide. Their biased policing data is feeding into creating a biased predictive model. A case of “garbage in,…
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Confirmation Bias Is The Enemy Of Exploratory Data Analysis
Author: Jonathan Davis; Publisher: The Medium; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how confirmation bias is a subtle form of bias that can cause data scientists to ask questions that are prone to confirming…
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The Ethics of Data and of Data Science: An Economist’s Perspective
Author: Jonathan Cave Publisher: The Royal Society Publication Year: 2016 Summary: The following abstract provides a practical approach to articulating main inherent data ethics components that is helpful in breaking down memorable takeaways. Specifically one…
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Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores
Author: Jon Kleinberg, Sendhil Mullainathan, Manish Raghavan; Publisher: N/A; Publication Year: 2016. The following publication discusses issues around risk scoring with credit scores and attempts to define “fairness” in this context. The main idea of…