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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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Are You Reproducing Historical Inequalities?

Lindsey Graham: If you have a substantial amount of data, it's very easy to use all kinds of things as proxies. She says the historical sedimentation that is then captured in the data is going to be reproduced even if you pull out all those things. "If you're not reflective about this, you end up reproducing historical inequalities," she says.

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