The Precision Medicine National Actor Map is the first visualization of the three major national precision medicine projects--All of Us Research Program, My Research Legacy, Project Baseline--and the network of institutions connected to them as grantees and sub-grantees. The map was developed for the Fairness in Precision Medicine initiative at Data & Society. Read more

What is Precision Medicine? is a general audience white paper by Dr. Kadija Ferryman and Mikaela Pitcan that introduces and outlines the emerging field of precision medicine; the effort to collect, integrate and analyze multiple sources of data in order to develop individualized insights about health and disease. Read more

Data & Society Postdoctoral Scholar Andrew Selbst argues for regulations in big data policing. "The way police are adopting and using these technologies means more people of color are arrested, jailed, or physically harmed... Read on Georgia Law Review

In this essay, D&S Fellow Taeyoon Choi interrogates technology designed for those with disabilities. "Even with the most advanced technology, disability can not and—sometimes should not—disappear from people. There are dis... Read on The New Inquiry

Virginia Eubanks discusses her most recent book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor.     Eubanks systematically shows the impacts of data mining, policy algorit... Read more

D&S founder and president sings praise for Virginia Eubank's new book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. "This book should be mandatory for anyone who works in social service... Read on Points

Anita Say Can introduces the concept of environmental data justice. Read on Annals of the American Associate of Geographers

D&S founder and President danah boyd & affiliate Solon Barocas investigate the practice of ethics in data science. "Critical commentary on data science has converged on a worrisome idea: that data scientists do not r... Read on ACM.org

danah boyd's remarks from her keynote at the 2017 Strata Data Conference in New York City explore media manipulation, data security, and system vulnerabilities. Read on Points

“Privacy, Security, and Digital Inequality” by Mary Madden is the first in-depth analysis of the privacy and security experiences of low-socioeconomic-status populations in the United States. Read more