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Data Ethics: the Bridge to Better Banking

Consent, Customer Trust, Data Collection, Discrimination

Author: Tim Sheehan; Publisher: GWI; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how banks are starting to change the way they do business due to so much data being available. But the banking companies do…
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Op-Ed: Big Data Analytics in Healthcare is All About Ethics

Aggregation, Big Data, Data Handling, Data Protection, Health Data

Author: Tim Sandle; Publisher: Digital Journal; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses the need for change in healthcare data. Ethics should be more of a priority for healthcare organizations. The author argues that privacy…
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Cautionary Tales – Florence Nightingale and her Geeks Declare War on Death

Data Visualizations, Florence Nightingale, Sanitary Commission

Author: Tim Harford; Publisher: Tim Harford (Personal Website); Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, famously used data visualization to communicate the impact of the Sanitary Commission’s…
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AI Policy 101: An Introduction to the 10 Key Aspects of AI Policy

AI Policy, Artificial Intelligence

Author: Tim Dutton; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2018. The following article explains the current political landscape of artificial intelligence (AI). It goes into the competitive nature of technology around the world and how countries are…
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Creating Diverse and Equitable Initiatives in Data Science

Data Science Education, Recruitment, Underrepresented Communities

Author: Tiffany Oliver; Publisher: TEDx Talks; Publication Year: 2022. In the following talk, Dr. Oliver talks about her work to address the underrepresentation of women and BIPOC in data science. In 2021, Dr. Oliver created…
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The State of Consumer Data Privacy Laws in the US (And Why It Matters)

Data Collection, Data Selling, Hacking, Information Leak

Author: Thorin Klosowski; Publisher: The New York Times, Wirecutter; Publication Year: 2021. The following article points out the massive amount of data that is collected on us daily by all sorts of different companies. These…
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Doing Data Science for Social Good, Responsibly

For-Profit, Not-For-Profits, Paternalism, Power Imbalance

Author: Rachel Thomas; Publisher: fast.ai; Publication Year: 2021. The following article focuses on some of the ethical considerations not-for-profits need to consider before beginning a data science project. In addition to the general privacy and…
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How To Move From Data Privacy To Data Ethics

Data Privacy, Data Privacy Legislation

Author: Thomas Walle; Publisher: Fobers; Publication Year: 2020. The following article is particularly insightful as it shows the difference between data privacy and data ethics, even though folks have a tendency to use the terms…
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AI has a Dangerous Bias Problem — Here’s How to Manage It

Accountability, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Biased AI, Data Misuse, Explainability, Security, Transparency

Author: Thomas Macaulay, Alejandro Saucedo; Publisher: The Next Web; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how almost all artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are inherently biased as they do exactly what us the programmers tell…
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