Category: Book

Invisible Women

Data Disparity, Gender, Gender Bias, Gender Gap

Author: Caroline Criado Perez; Publisher: Vintage Books; Publication Year: 2020. The following book shows us how bias exists in even the most innocuous of circumstances. In systems that are primarily designed for and by men,…
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Black Box Algorithms, Google, Hiring Software, Protected Classes, vector computation, word2vec

Author: Brian Christian; Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Publication Year: 2020. The following book focuses on word2vec, an algorithm from 2013 that allows for vector computation of words. That is, word2vec allows for computations…
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Chapter 8: Data Science Ethics

American Statistical Association Framework, Data Visualizations, Stereotyping, Systematic Racism

Author: Benjamin S. Baumer, Daniel T. Kaplan, and Nicholas J. Horton; Publisher: Modern Data Science with R, 2nd edition; Publication Year: 2021. The following textbook chapter is about data ethics, but more specifically, a technical…
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The Big Data Agenda

Big Data, Biomedical Studies, Data Collection

Author: Annika Richterich; Publisher: University of Westminster Press, Google Books; Publication Year: 2018. The following article highlights that gathering and analyzing big data raises many ethical issues. She gives a lot of background information on…
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Good Data

Criminology, Data Science, Digital Humanities, Digital Media, Interdisciplinary, Justice, Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, Renewable Energy, Social Media, Sociology

Author: Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt, Monique Mann; Publisher: Insitute of Network Cultures (Google Books); Publication Year: 2019. The following book moves away from critiquing bad data and instead brainstorms a more optimistic vision of…
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Virtual Assistants and Ethical Implications

Brand, Consumers, Human Impersonation, Information Disclosure, Transparency, Virtual Assistants

Author: Abhishek Kaul; Publisher: InTech Open; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how consumers of a brand can have poor experiences and develop a lack of trust in the brand if virtual assistants are…
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Category: Book

Invisible Women

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Chapter 8: Data Science Ethics

The Big Data Agenda

Good Data

Virtual Assistants and Ethical Implications