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How Inclusive Machine Learning Can Benefit Your Organization

Decision-Making, Fair Algorithm, Fair Training Data, Inclusivity, Machine Learning

Author: Christopher Tozzi; Publisher: ITPro Today; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how businesses have started putting more of an “inclusive” focus on machine learning models to avoid bias and error while creating models.…
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Understanding Data Quality: How Data Quality Problems Arise

Ambiguous Data, Data Entry Errors, Data Quality, Data Transformation Errors, Duplicate Data, Information Gaps, OCR Errors, Operating Systems

Author: Christopher Tozzi; Publisher: Precisely; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discuses how data quality is the data set’s ability to serve a business for its intended use. Data quality is essential because It allows…
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Doing Data for Good Right

Data Analysis, Data Context, Data-for-Good, Ethical Choices, Limits, Pro-Bono, Quantifying Potential Harm

Author: Christine Henry; Publisher: DataKind; Publication Year: 2018. The following article features DataKind (a data-for-good organization) outlining their data code of ethics for being a pro-bono data scientist. They emphasize that ethics is always important,…
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Emerging Ethical Issues Regarding Digital Health Data. On the World Medical Association Draft Declaration on Ethical Considerations Regarding Health Databases and Biobanks

Biomedical Studies, Consent, Health Biobanks, Health databases, Human Materials, Personally Identifiable Information, WMA, World Medical Association

Author: Christine Aicardi Publisher: National Library of Medicine Publication Year: 2016. The following article talks about the World Medical Association (WMA) draft on Ethical Considerations Regarding Health Databases and Biobanks. The draft Declaration indeed stresses…
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Great Promise but Potential for Peril

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Decision-Making, Discrimination, Healthcare, Hiring Software, Human Judgement, Machine Learning, Product Development, Surveillance, Unconscious Bias

Author: Christina Pazzanese Publisher: The Harvard Gazette Publication Year: 2020 Summary: The following article starts off by talking about all the different ways in which AI or machine learning can help improve society and business.…
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Synthetic Data Generation

Amazon, American Express, Data Protection, Google, Insufficient Representation, Synthetic Data, Training Data, Underrepresented Communities

Author: Christian Schitton; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how synthetic data is a less well-known area of data science. Synthetic data addresses issues of insufficient representation in data. For example, models…
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Your Big Data Responsibility: The Rise In Data Ethics

Algorithmic Audit, Company Profits, Consent, Customer Data, Design, Evaluation, Informed Consent, risk mitigation, Transparency

Author: Christian Ofori-Boateng; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how, for businesses, data represents customers, and customers drive profit. It’s easy for a business to be distracted by company profits and less…
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Driverless Cars: Experts Warn No Easy Answer to How Safe They Should Be

Autonomous Vehicles, Consent, Delineation, Self-Driving Cars

Author: Chris Vallance; Publisher: BBC News; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how self-driving cars, while emerging in the tech world, are not yet normalized in overall society. In the UK, policymakers are contemplating…
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Google Fined $57M by Data Protection Watchdog Over GDPR Violations

Ad Personalization, Amazon, Apple, Consent, Data Collection, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Google, Lawsuits, Netflix, Spotify

Author: Chris Brook; Publisher: Data Insider; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how while it might be easy to say that just because a law has been passed to regulate data ethics more strictly…
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