Tag: Context
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Our Data Ethics: Measure What Matters and Don’t Be Creepy
Author: Lauren Peate; Publisher: Multitudes; Publication Year: 2021. The following article and video discuss how when starting a new company that uses lots of user data, it is important to have a good set of…
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Data Feminism
Binaries, Context, Data Collection, Hierarchies, Indigenous Peoples, Intersectionality, Power Distribution, Power StructuresAuthor: Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein; Publisher: MIT Press; Publication Year: 2020. In the following book D’Ignazio and Klein present a new lens for thinking about data science and ethics. Their ideas are based on…
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The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves
Author: Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein; Publisher: MIT Press; Publication Year: 2020. The following book chapter discusses how context is everything. Numbers are just numbers and cannot speak for themselves. Future data scientists need to…
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On Rational, Scientific, Objective Viewpoints from Mythical, Imaginary, Impossible Standpoints
Author: Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein Publisher: MIT Press Publication Year: 2020 Summary: The following book chapter from “Data Feminism” can be beautifully summed up by words from Black feminist sociologist Patricia Hill Collins: “Neither…