Datasheets for Datasets
Author: Timnit Gebru, Jamie Morgenstern, Briana Vecchione, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Hanna Wallach, Hal Daumé III, Kate Crawford; Publisher: Microsoft; Publication Year: 2019. The following proposal identifies that as the field of machine learning has grown, we continually see misuse of algorithmic processes or data that reinforces biases or has other ethical and legal concerns. The proposal here is that similar to the electronics agency, each “component” in data should have a description, prompted by questions in 7 categories…