Category: Research Article

Contentious Issues in Research on Trafficked Women Working in the Sex Industry: Study Design, Ethics, and Methodology

Consent, Data Collection, Sex Trafficking

Author: Julie Cwikel, Elizabeth Hoban; Publisher: The Journal of Sex Research; Publication Year: 2010. The following article discusses how it is easy to overlook ethical considerations that need to be taken into account before data…
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Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Ethics of Marketing Analytics

Data Marketing, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Marketing, Marketing Analytics, Targeted Advertising

Author: Julia Hopkins; Publisher: University of New Hampshire Scholars’ Repository ; Publication Year: 2016. The following thesis study talks about the effectiveness, efficiency, and ethics of marketing analytics. Also, the author says how targeted advertising…
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The Ethics of Data and of Data Science: An Economist’s Perspective

Codification, Endogeneity

Author: Jonathan Cave Publisher: The Royal Society Publication Year: 2016 Summary: The following abstract provides a practical approach to articulating main inherent data ethics components that is helpful in breaking down memorable takeaways. Specifically one…
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Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores

Credit Score, Fairness, Risk Scoring

Author: Jon Kleinberg, Sendhil Mullainathan, Manish Raghavan; Publisher: N/A; Publication Year: 2016. The following publication discusses issues around risk scoring with credit scores and attempts to define “fairness” in this context. The main idea of…
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Ethical by Design: Ethics Best Practices for Natural Language Processing

Ethical by Design, Natural Language Processing Technology, Transparency, User Values, User-Centric, Visibility

Author: Jochen L. Leidner, Vassilis Plachouras; Publisher: ACL Anthology; Publication Year: 2017. The following article features Jochen L. Leidner and Vassilis Plachouras who are Data Scientists at Thomson Reuters, Research & Development located in the…
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Mining Social Media Data: How are Research Sponsors and Researchers Addressing the Ethical Challenges?

Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Data Collection, Data Mining, Personal Data, Social Media, Transparency, Trump

Author: Joanna Taylor, Claudia Pagliari; Publisher: SAGE Journals; Publication Year: 2017. The following article explores the ways data is being mined on social media platforms. Data representing people’s behavior, attitudes, feelings, and relationships are being…
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Human Bias in Machine Learning: How Well Do You Really Know Your Model?

Artificial Intelligence, Biased Data, Biased Results, Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations, Machine Learning, Objective Algorithm, Representation in Training Datasets, Training Data

Author: Jim Box, Elena Snavely, and Hiwot Tesfaye; Publisher: SAS Global Forum; Publication Year: 2022. The following paper discusses how it is a common consensus that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are going…
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Enhancing Data Science Ethics Through Statistical Education and Practice

Ethical Conduct, Ethical Practice

Author: Jessica Utts; Publisher: International Statistical Review; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses what statisticians can do to promote ethical practices and what educators can do to instill ethical conduct in data science. The…
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Five Ethical Challenges Facing Data-Driven Policing

Accountability, Data-Driven Policing, Policing, Racial Bias, Transparency

Author: Jeremy Davis, Duncan Purves, Juan Gilbert, Schuyler Sturm; Publisher: AI and Ethics; Publication Year: 2022. The following paper lists out 5 challenges with “data-driven policing” which has become more common all across the U.S.…
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