Data Ethics Repository

Tag: Defaults

Discriminating Data

Alternative Algorithms, Defaults, Dirty Data, Innate Bias, Interdisciplinary, Racial Bias

Author: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; Publisher: MIT Press; Publication Year: 2021. The following book discusses the innate bias that comes from dirty data and how removing indicators of race will not remove bias from artificial…
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Handle with Care: Lessons for Data Science from Black Female Scholars

Algorithms, Black Women, Data Collection, Defaults, Discrimination, Racism, Stereotypes

Author: Inioluwa Deborah Raji; Publisher: Patterns; Publication Year: 2020. The following article begins by confronting the idea that data science aims to reduce people to one dimensional ideas or stereotypes. When individuals or organizations attempt…
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