That's what @mathbabedotorg thought. So she got a math Ph. D. from Harvard. Then she moved from theory to practice and witnessed that math isn't as straightforward as B&W in the real world. Hence her #WeaponsOfMathDestruction book. Check out the interview. You'll like it! ;-)
Data-driven algorithms used by housing companies can discriminate against certain groups of people.Redlining is a discriminatory practice that is still being used by some housing companies.
#WeaponsOfMathDestruction
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Image: screenshot of Zoom showing slide by speaker (Dr. Andrew Hundt @athundt).
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Some key books that have informed this talk
Predominantly peer reviewed academic literature and major award winners
Box to right contains the title and authors of the book https://fairmlbook.org
[Fairness and Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities
Solon Barocas (@s010n), Moritz Hardt, Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker)]
39 additional book covers appear below this text:
- Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio (@kanarinka) and Lauren Klein (@laurenfklein)
- Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks (@PopTechWorks)
- Haben
- How to Be An Antiracist and Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- Viral Justice also by Ruha Benjamin
- Transgender History by @susanstryker
- Equity in Science by @JuliePosselt
- Design Justice by @schock
- The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
- Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong 王美華 (@SFdirewolf)
- Research Consensus Reports by @theNASEM
Good one, and thank you for sharing. Check out #weaponsofmathdestruction by @mathbabedotorg (Cathy O’Neil) that talks abt big data algorithms that are increasingly used in ways that reinforce preexisting inequality.
Kudos,#UK, this is about as outrageous and non-sensical as it gets, basing visa decisions on university #rankings 🫣 After #Brexit's anti-elitism and anti-institutionalism,your leaders turn once AGAIN to institutional #elitism as the solution. Congrats! 1/
nytimes.com/2022/06/03/world…
Good discussion at tonight’s BWA/STC book club about Cathy ONeil’s #weaponsOfMathDestruction. The danger from black-box #algorithms with no “positive feedback loop” is scary. Thanks to @kitcomgenesis for keeping us organized!