Category: Research Article

Big Data in Food Safety – A Review

Big Data, Blockchain Technology, Food Safety, Labeling, Satellite Imagery, Social Media

Author: Cangyu Jin, Yamine Bouzembrak, Jiehong Zhou, Qiao Liang, Leonieke M.van den Bulk, Anand Gavai, Ningjing Liu, Lukas J.van den Heuvel, Wouter Hoenderdaal, Hans J.P. Marvin; Publisher: Current Opinion in Food Science; Publication Year: 2020.…
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The Ethics of Big Data: Current and Foreseeable Issues in Biomedical Contexts

Big Data, Big Data Divides, Biomedical Studies, Consent, Epistemology, Objectivity, Ownership

Author: Brent Daniel Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi; Publisher: The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data; Publication Year: 2016. The following article pays particular attention to biomedical Big Data due to the inherent sensitivity of medical information. 5…
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What Does Information Science Offer for Data Science Research?: A Review of Data and Information Ethics Literature

Availability Bias, Contextual Bias, Interpretation Bias, Methodological Bias, Sampling Bias

Author: Brady Lund, Ting Wang; Publisher: Sciendo; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses the issues of bias in the data science world, however, it goes more in-depth and explains 5 different kinds of bias…
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Biased Programmers? Or Biased Data? A Field Experiment in Operationalizing AI Ethics

Algorithms, Training Data

Author: Bo Cowgill, Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Samuel Deng, Daniel Hsu, Nakul Verma, Augustin Chaintreau; Publisher: Navigating the Broader Impacts of AI Research Workshop at the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems; Publication Year: 2020. The…
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Ethical Issues Arising Due to Bias in Training A.I. Algorithms in Healthcare and Data Sharing as a Potential Solution

AI Training Models, Algorithmic Bias, Data Sharing, Generalizability, Healthcare, Machine Learning

Author: Bilwaj Gaonkar Ph.D., Kirstin Cook B.A., Luke Macyszyn M.D.; Publisher: The AI Ethics Journal; Publication Year: 2020. The following article features authors that explain that each time a human makes a decision in modeling,…
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Big Data and Financial Ethics: The Significant Capabilities of
Artificial Intelligence Necessitate Human Guidance and Input

Discrimination, Machine Learning, Pattern-Based Searches, Subject-Based Searches, Transparency

Author: Billie Trinder; Publisher: Seven Pillars Institute; Publication Year: 2019. The following article argues that external enforcement of ethical principles in data analytics is unfeasible due to the pace of technological advancement and bureaucratic lag.…
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Addressing Race in Pulmonary Function Testing by Aligning Intent and Evidence With Practice and Perception

COVID-19, Healthcare, PFT, Systematic Bias

Author: Bhakta NR, Kaminsky DA, Bime C, Thakur N, Hall GL, McCormack MC, Stanojevic S.; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2021. The following article identifies how the COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness of…
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P-Curve: A Tool for Detecting Publication Bias

Academic Integrity, Academic Research, P-Curve, P-Hacking

Author: Uri Simonsohn, Leif D. Nelson, and Joseph P. Simmons.; Publisher: Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences; Publication Year: 2014. The following article overviews the concept of the “P-curve,” a tool that can…
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Integrating Data Science Ethics Into an Undergraduate Major: A Case Study

Data Science Program, National Academies, Smith College

Author: Benjamin S. Baumer, Randi L. Garcia, Albert Y. Kim, Katherine M. Kinnaird, Miles Q. Ott; Publisher: Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education; Publication Year: 2022. The following case study discusses how the National…
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