Tag: Big Data

Big Data Ethics: Weaving ethics into the fabric of Big Data

Advertisements, Big Data, Data Accessibility, Data Processing

Author: Sahana Rajan; Publisher: Suyati; Publication Year: 2015. The following article discusses how as big data becomes more common, what are the boundaries of data ethics? Intricate data processing can open up the possibility of…
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Big Data Ethics and 10 Controversial Data Science Experiments

Big Data, Discrimination, Location Tracking, Privacy Breach, Targeted Advertising, Transparency

Author: Sabrina Dominguez; Publisher: Data Science Dojo; Publication Year: 2018. In the following article, Sabrina Dominguez summarizes 10 controversial data science projects involving big data. She looks at these examples through a business lens, with…
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Scientific Research and Big Data

Big Data, Ethical Constraints, Knowledge Generation, Machine Learning Algorithms, Personal Data

Author: N/A; Publisher: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Publication Year: 2020. The following resource is primarily focused on the way that big data and machine learning algorithms has changed the process of knowledge generation. At the…
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Data Experts as the Balancing Power of Big Data Ethics

Big Data, Ethical Use, Social Responsbility

Author: Richard Novak; Publisher: ProQuest; Publication Year: 2021. The following source discusses how although Big Data requires prioritization of social responsibility and adherence to data ethics, these areas tend to be understaffed. The 3 major…
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Big Data Ethics: Redefining Values in the Digital World

Automation, Big Data

Author: N/A; Publisher: Thomson Reuters; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how there are additional ethical challenges that come into play when working with Big Data. Since there are so many observations being brought…
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The Ethics of Big Data: Current and Foreseeable Issues in Biomedical Contexts

Big Data, Big Data Gap, Epistemology, Ethical Assessment, Governance Framework

Author: Brent Daniel Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2015. The following paper provides an ethical assessment of emerging Big Data practices and a framework for governance. The authors discuss 2…
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Racial Equity and Data Science

Big Data, Discriminatory Practices, Racial Discrimination, Racial Equality

Author: MIT IDSS; Publisher: MIT Political Science; Publication Year: 2022. The following article features the Research Initiative on Combating Systematic Racism (ICSR) who’s goal is to seed and coordinate research used to identify racially discriminatory…
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Social Media, Big Data, and Mental Health: Current Advances and Ethical Implications

Big Data, Mental Health, Natural Language Processing Technology, Public Health, Social Media

Author: Mike Conway, Daniel O’Connor; Publisher: Current Opinion in Psychology; Publication Year: 2016. The following article discusses how social media big data being combined with natural language processing (NLP) technology can address public health research…
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OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science

Big Data, Consent, OkCupid, Public Data

Author: Michael Zimmer; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2016. The following article describes how a group of Danish researchers publicly released a dataset of nearly 70,000 OkCupid users, including usernames, age, gender, location, the type of…
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