B D'Alessandro|Cathy O’Neil|Tom LaGatta
Conscientious Classification: A Data Scientist's Guide to Discrimination-Aware Classification
Splunk (United States)
recent research helped cultivate growing awareness machine learning systems fueled big data create exacerbate troubling disparities society much research comes outside practicing data science community leaving members little concrete guidance proactively address concerns article introduces issues discrimination data science community terms tour familiar data mining process providing taxonomy common practices potential produce unintended discrimination also survey discrimination commonly measured suggest familiar development processes augmented mitigate systems discriminatory potential advocate data scientists intentional modeling reducing discriminatory outcomes without efforts result perpetuating systemic discrimination may exist misleading veil datadriven objectivity