Category: 2020
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Confirmation Bias Is The Enemy Of Exploratory Data Analysis
Author: Jonathan Davis; Publisher: The Medium; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how confirmation bias is a subtle form of bias that can cause data scientists to ask questions that are prone to confirming…
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Doing The Right Thing With Data: Start Exploring Data Ethics Now
Author: Jochem Dogger; Publisher: Capgemini; Publication Year: 2020. The following article makes a point that often unethical use of data results from a lack of digital literacy or little awareness of the implications of digital…
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Privacy Lost In The Age Of ADS-B
Author: Jeff Simon; Publisher: Plane & Pilot; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how airplanes are being tracked every second of the day. If you decide to take a flight from RDU to ATL,…
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What Does it Mean to ‘Solve’ the Problem of Discrimination in Hiring? Social, Technical and Legal Perspectives from the UK on Automated Hiring Systems
Automated Hiring Systems, Bias Mitigation, Discrimination, Discriminatory Practices, Economic Inequality, Economic Justice, Hiring, RecruitmentAuthor: Javier Sánchez-Monedero, Lina Dencik, Lilian Edwards; Publisher: Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency; Publication Year: 2020. The following article describes how discriminatory practices in recruitment and hiring are a persistent problem that affects not…
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‘Dark Arts’ and ‘Codebreaker’: The Origins of the Houston Astros Cheating Scheme
Author: Jared Diamond; Publisher: The Wall Street Journal; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how professional sports teams have started using data analytics more and more over the last decade or so in order…
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Bias in Speech Recognition
Author: Jamie Brandon; Publisher: Springer Link; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how speech recognition algorithms are less effective when it comes to Black people. An algorithm was given a matched subset of identical…
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Using Unethical Data to Build a More Ethical World
Author: Jaime Brandon; Publisher: Springer Link; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how it is commonly known that there are lots of algorithms that are biased in one way or another. In this paper,…