Ethical Practice

Enhancing Data Science Ethics Through Statistical Education and Practice

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Author: Jessica Utts; Publisher: International Statistical Review; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses what statisticians can do to promote ethical practices and what educators can do to instill ethical conduct in data science. The author begins by sharing a personal story about a class of engineers who were tasked with developing a pipeline to send blood from one nation to another. The classmates came back…

Business Ethics and Big Data

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Author: N/A; Publisher: Institute of Business Ethics; Publication Year: 2016. The following article discusses how for both business and their customers, the responsible and ethical use of big data is in both parties interest. Society deserves to have their data and privacy be respected. More importantly, they should be made aware of how data is being used on them so they are not being manipulated unknowingly. On the other…

Infografia Data Ethics Checklist

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Author: N/A; Publisher: Eticas Foundation; Publication Year: 2018. The following infographic provides 9 main checklist items to go over when considering data ethics for a project. These include: 1). Team roles identified; 2). Project fully planned out; 3). Project approved; 4). Subjects gave consent; 5). Data provenance has been documented; 6). Privacy is prioritized; 7). Careful with third party sharing; 8). Scrutinized…

Data Scientists Have Access to Your Sensitive Data. That’s Driving More Schools to Teach Ethics

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Author: Dawn Rzeznikeicz; Publisher: Fortune Education; Publication Year: 2022. The following article asks whether data scientists/computer scientists have any obligation to practice data ethics and do they place technological advancements over ethical considerations. Those questions start with how we are educating students in these disciplines. Students argue that the ethics taught is not always relevant to their learning…