The Sciences
Typically shown as a Venn diagram between Computer Science, Mathematics, and Business Domain
What is Data Science?
In 2016, a ProPublica investigation uncovered racial bias in which criminal justice risk assessment algorithm?
What is COMPAS
Pre-written rules that are applied without adapting to individual cases or circumstances
What is static?
What term refers to units of information, often numeric, that are collected through observation?
What is data?
This sport is the focus of Chapter One
What is hockey?
Provides insights into human and societal behaviors and dynamics through diverse disciplines.
What is Social Science?
What assessment tool includes factors such as family, social circumstances, substance abuse, and mental health to predict recidivism rates?
What is the Ohio Risk Assessment System?
This component of the data science workflow can introduce bias if it is not representative of the broader population or if it contains imbalanced or skewed samples
What is the training set?
Volume, Velocity, Variety
What is big data?
This concept introduced by Gladwell explains the role of opportunity and cultural legacy in shaping individual success.
What is the Matthew Effect?
This term refers to interconnected devices embedded with sensors and software, enabling them to collect and exchange data over the internet.
What is the Internet of Things, IoT?
What term is essential for enhancing public understanding of how a defendant’s risk is determined, especially considering the need for access to non-public documents and understanding the "black box"?
What is transparency?
This type of bias can occur when algorithms produce results that systematically disadvantage certain groups or individuals.
What is algorithmic bias?
What process involves transforming raw data into meaningful statistics, information, and explanations?
What is data analysis?
A system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities
What is meritocracy?
She is the founder of Black in AI and was fired from Google for sending an internal email that accused Google of "silencing marginalised voices".
Who is Dr. Timnit Gebru?
The term is used in the risk of a person re-offending.
What is recidivism?
Statistical models and tools used to estimate risk based on analysis of group data and characteristics
What is actuarial?
Refers to the formulation of a theory, the collection of the data to address the theory, and the analytical confirmation or denial of the theory.
What is hypothesis testing?
what term used by the author describes the approximate amount of deliberate practice required to achieve expertise in a particular field?
What is 10,000 hour Rule?
From the article "How our data encodes systematic racism", complete this sentence, "The fact is that AI doesn’t work until it ....."
What is "works for all of us".
What factor is crucial for understanding concepts like over-policing, drug enforcement policies, Three Strike Laws, and the war on drugs?
What is the historical context of discrimination?
She found the Algorithmic Justice League
Who is Dr. Joy Buolamwini?
The form of collecting data followed by open-ended analysis, making no assumptions.
What is data discovery or data exploration?
This term describes the societal orientation found in countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Japan, South Korea, China, Thailand, and Indonesia.
Collectivism