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#50 Weapons of Math Destruction


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In episode 50, our Season 1, 2018 finale of DataFramed, the DataCamp podcast, Hugo speaks with Cathy O’Neil, data scientist, investigative journalist, consultant, algorithmic auditor and author of the critically acclaimed book Weapons of Math Destruction. Cathy and Hugo discuss the ingredients that make up weapons of math destruction, which are algorithms and models that are important in society, secret and harmful, from models that decide whether you keep your job, a credit card or insurance to algorithms that decide how we’re policed, sentenced to prison or given parole? Cathy and Hugo discuss the current lack of fairness in artificial intelligence, how societal biases are perpetuated by algorithms and how both transparency and auditability of algorithms will be necessary for a fairer future. What does this mean in practice? Tune in to find out. As Cathy says, “Fairness is a statistical concept. It's a notion that we need to understand at an aggregate level.” And, moreover, “data science doesn't just predict the future. It causes the future.”LINKS FROM THE SHOW

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FROM THE INTERVIEW

  • Cathy on Twitter
  • Cathy's Blog Mathbabe
  • Weapons of Math Destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy by Cathy O'Neil
  • Cathy's Opinion Column, Bloomberg 
  • Doing Data Science (By Cathy O'Neil and Rachel Schutt)
  • Cathy O'Neil & Hanna Gunn's "Ethical Matrix" paper coming soon.

FROM THE SEGMENTS

Data Science Best Practices (with Heather Nolis ~20:30)

  • Using docker to deploy an R plumber API (By Jonathan Nolis and Heather Nolis)
  • Enterprise Web Services with Neural Networks Using R and TensorFlow (By Jonathan Nolis and Heather Nolis)

Data Science Best Practices (with Ben Skrainka ~39:35)

  • The Clean Coder Blog (By Robert C. Martin)
  • James Shore’s blog post on Red, Green, Refactor
  • Jeff Knupp’s Python Unittesting tutorial (general unit tests in Python)
  • John Myles White’s Intro to Unit Testing in R

Original music and sounds by The Sticks.

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