Tag: diversity
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The hazard of being a wizard. On balance between specialization and the risk to become obsolete.
A wizard is a person who continually improves his or her professional skill in a particular and defined field. I learned about this definition of wizardness from the book “Managing project, people and yourself” by Nikolay Toverosky (the book is in Russian).
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On algorithmic fairness & transparency
My teammate, Charles Earl has recently attended the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, andTransparency (FAT*). The conference site is full of very interesting material, including proceedings and video recording of lectures and tutorials.
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Identifying and overcoming bias in machine learning
Data scientists build models using data. Real-life data captures real-life injustice and stereotypes. Are data scientists observers whose job is to describe the world, no matter how unjust it is? Charles Earl, an excellent data scientist, and my teammate says that the answer to this question is a firm “NO.” Read the latest data.blog post to learn Charles’ arguments and best practices.