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How Data Happened: Professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones on the History of Data

Tides of History

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Is There a Tension Between Ethical Principles and Machine Learning?

The book talks a little bit about the philosophical traditions on which those two principles are based. There has always been a tendency to use quantifiable data to talk about groups of people, to make decisions. In what ways have algorithmic systems changed that dynamic? Have they reinforced it? And in what ways have they taken it in subtly different directions? That is a long list, unfortunately.

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