Ethics and Data Science
I believe that data-driven organizations have to respect their users’ rights and sensibilities.
Carl Anderson • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
The Promise and Pitfalls of “Big Data”
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Many people have strong intuitions about whether they would rather have a vital decision about them made by algorithms or humans. Some people are touchingly impressed by the capabilities of the algorithms; others have far too much faith in human judgment. The truth is that sometimes the algorithms will do better than the humans, and sometimes they
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Control of data and ownership of the models learned from it is what many of the twenty-first century’s battles will be about—between governments, corporations, unions, and individuals. But you also have an ethical duty to share data for the common good. Machine learning alone will not cure cancer; cancer patients will, by sharing their data for the
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