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Data & SocietyDavid Robinson discusses an example of an effective application of an algorithm in healthcare. Read moreDecember 2020 -
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Data & SocietyAngèle Christin and Joseph Torres analyze racial divisions in media-making and its interplay with data-centric technologies. Read moreOctober 2020 -
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Data & SocietySasha Costanza-Chock re-imagines how design led by marginalized communities can become a tool to help dismantle structural inequality, advance collective liberation, & support ecological survival. Read moreApril 2020 -
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Data & SocietyYeshimabeit Milner, founder and executive director of Data for Black Lives presents "Abolish Big Data." Read moreMarch 2020 -
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DatabitesIn Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination... Read moreMay 2018 -
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WNYC The TakeawayD&S lawyer-in-residence Rebecca Wexler describes the intersection of automated technologies, trade secrets, and the criminal justice system. For-profit companies dominate the criminal justice technologies industry and prod... Read on WNYC The TakeawayJune 2017 -
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DatabitesData & Society Fellow Ravi Shroff studies the development and implementation of predictive models for decision making in city and state government. This talk covers Shroff’s research on improving decision making within poli... Read moreJune 2017 -
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Data & SocietyD&S advisor Claudia Perlich discusses modeling, transparency, and machine learning in a new episode of the Partially Derivative podcast. “One pitfall I see is that it’s easy from a social science perspective to condemn all... Read on Data & SocietyJanuary 2017 -
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Data & SocietyPredictive policing systems are increasingly used by law enforcement to try to prevent crime before it occurs. But what happens when these systems are trained using biased data? Machine learning algorithms ar... Read moreNovember 2016 -
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Radio NZ"Seeta Gangadharan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open Technology Institute in Washington DC [and a D&S fellow]. She discusses the automated systems, known as algorithms, that are replacing human discretion more and mor... Read on Radio NZFebruary 2015