Conscientious Classification: A Data Scientist's Guide to Discrimination-Aware Classification

Big Data

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 120-134

  D'Alessandro, Brian ^a,b   O'Neil, Cathy ^c   Lagatta, Tom ^d  

^a Zocdoc ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ORCAA   (United States)

^d Splunk Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

data science; disparate impact; ethics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MACHINE LEARNING;

EID: 85021165717     PISSN: 21676461     EISSN: 2167647X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/big.2016.0048     Document Type: Article

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