Surya Mattu, a Data & Society affiliate, is a Brooklyn-based investigative data journalist, engineer, and artist who builds tools to investigate algorithmic systems and the societal harms they can cause. He co-founded and leads the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University.
Surya Mattu
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ProPublicaJulia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner, and Surya Mattu complete the Black Box series with an analysis of premiums and payouts in California, Illinois, Texas and Missouri that shows that some major insurers charge minority ... Read on ProPublicaApril 2017 -
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ProPublicaD&S affiliate Surya Mattu, with Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr., and Seongtaek Lim, continue the Black Box series. Depending on what data they are trained on, machines can “learn” to be biased. That’s what happened in the f... Read on ProPublicaOctober 2016 -
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ProPublicaJulia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr., and D&S affiliate Surya Mattu explore what Facebook knows about its users. We built a tool that works with the Chrome Web browser that lets you see what Facebook says it knows about you — yo... Read on ProPublicaSeptember 2016 -
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ProPublicaD&S affiliate Surya Mattu with Julia Angwin examine how Amazon's shopping algorithm directs customers to buy Amazon or Amazon-affiliated sellers' merchandise, even if products from other sellers on the platform cost much le... Read on ProPublicaSeptember 2016 -
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ProPublicaD&S fellow Surya Mattu investigated bias in risk assessments, algorithmically generated scores predicting the likelihood of a person committing a future crime. These scores are increasingly used in courtrooms across America... Read on ProPublicaMay 2016 -
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Data & SocietyArtist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington and fellow Surya Mattu teamed up on a curriculum and toolkit of digital and analog resources for teaching people about the physical realities, hardware, and power dynamics of the Internet. ... Read moreMarch 2016 -
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ProPublicaLauren Kirchner and D&S fellow Surya Mattu report for ProPublica on the findings of an analysis that contradicts Uber's argument for the surge prices that it charges users. Read on ProPublicaOctober 2015 -
Academic Article
Journal of Technology ScienceAbstract For decades, The Princeton Review has prepared students for a battery of standardized tests for a price. In some cases, that price varies by ZIP code (or United States postal codes). The Princeton Review's website r... Read on Journal of Technology ScienceSeptember 2015