Underrepresented Author

Resources that were produced by upcoming or rarely-recognized authors.

Mitigating Bias in Artificial Intelligence: An Equity Fluent Leadership Playbook

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Author: Genevieve Smith, Ishita Rustagi; Publisher: Berkeley Haas, Center for Equity, Gender and Leadership; Publication Year: N/A. The following resource is a business playbook for mitigating bias in artificial intelligence (AI). It has several real-life examples of bias in AI that could lead to unethical situations or business decisions. The authors introduce 7 plays that when used correctly can unlock the potential of AI to advance business and society responsibly and equitably. The 7…

Seven North Carolina College Campuses have Secretly Tracked Social Media Posts of Students, Protesters

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Author: Cullen Browder; Publisher: WRAL News; Publication Year: 2022. Following news article describes how 7 North Carolina universities have used Navigate360 to track social media posts related to various campus occurrences. Most notably, UNC-Chapel Hill used this program to track social media posts about the Silent Sam protests, ostensibly to be prepared for whatever might happen. Universities also use the…

Invisible Women

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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, many systematically ignore the female half of the population. Criado Perez provides case studies from nearly every sect to showcase this data disparity and its detrimental…

Addressing Race in Pulmonary Function Testing by Aligning Intent and Evidence With Practice and Perception

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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 the systematic bias of pulse oximetry in individuals with darker skin tones. Some, but not all, models of pulse oximeters report higher values with increasing skin pigmentation. This measurement problem is the result of calibration…

The Big Data Agenda

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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 biomedical studies and the practices associated with their data collection. As big data research and technology corporations continue to work together, there are more…

Mapping for Accessibility: A Case Study of Ethics in Data Science for Social Good

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Author: Anissa Tanweer, Margaret Drouhard, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, et al.; Publisher: Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange Conference; Publication Year: 2017. The following article emphasizes how important it is to engage in ethical thinking at the early stages of a project and that the approach to ethical thinking should be a thoughtful and intentional balancing of priorities. The article looked into a case study where ethical decision-making was involved in every stage of the project…

Good Data

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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 the field of data. They seek to promote conversations between many disciplines and stakeholders in order to raise awareness for good & ethical data practices. They combine expertise from many fields to get a…