Category: Book
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Ethics of Data & Analytics Concepts & Cases
Author: Kirsten Martin; Publisher: Auerbach Publications; Publication Year: 2022. The following book talks about the ethics of data and analytics. It talks about how every decision made in todays businesses has a moral component since…
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The Power of Habit
Author: Charles Duhigg; Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Publication Year: 2014. The following book discusses how in 2002, statistician Andrew Pole began working for Target as a data expert. He was tasked with making an…
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Standards of Practice Handbook
Author: N/A; Publisher: The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute; Publication Year: 2014. Summary: The following handbook discusses regulation in relation to ethics of financial analysts. It covers how to keep privacy of data, to transfer…
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Weapons of Math Destruction
Author: Cathy O’Neil; Publisher: Crown; Publication Year: 2016. The following book discusses “weapons of math destruction”: algorithms that try to quantify subjective qualities or judgment metrics. For example, an algorithm that tries to quantify “creditworthiness”…
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Data Feminism
Binaries, Context, Data Collection, Hierarchies, Indigenous Peoples, Intersectionality, Power Distribution, Power StructuresAuthor: Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein; Publisher: MIT Press; Publication Year: 2020. In the following book D’Ignazio and Klein present a new lens for thinking about data science and ethics. Their ideas are based on…
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What Gets Counted Counts
Author: Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein; Publisher: MIT Press; Publication Year: 2020. The following book chapter considers how within data science, practitioners are used to seeing the world in 1s and 0s – in fact,…
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The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves
Author: Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein; Publisher: MIT Press; Publication Year: 2020. The following book chapter discusses how context is everything. Numbers are just numbers and cannot speak for themselves. Future data scientists need to…
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On Rational, Scientific, Objective Viewpoints from Mythical, Imaginary, Impossible Standpoints
Author: Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein Publisher: MIT Press Publication Year: 2020 Summary: The following book chapter from “Data Feminism” can be beautifully summed up by words from Black feminist sociologist Patricia Hill Collins: “Neither…