And old adage says: garbage in, garbage out. Here we avoid garbage in.
tidymodels
syntax for recipesClass notes: k nearest neighbors
Max Kuhn and Julia Silge (2021), Tidy Modeling with R
What is the process for building a model using tidymodels?
Why is it important to do feature engineering for variables in a model?
How is data separated in order to work with independent information (hint: two ways)?
There are two ways that laws are enforced (both equally important):
disparate treatment \(\rightarrow\) means that the differential treatment is intentional
disparate impact \(\rightarrow\) means that the differential treatment is unintentional or implicit (some examples include advancing mortgage credit, employment selection, predictive policing)
Anti-discrimination Laws
Questions to ask yourself in every single data analysis you perform (taken from Data Science for Social Good at the University of Chicago):
In class slides for 10/21/21.
Hilary Mason describing what is machine learning to 5 different people.
Julia Silge’s blog is full of complete tidymodels examples and screencasts.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jan 22, 2019 MLK event with Ta-Nehisi Coates
S. Barocas and A. Selbst, “Big Data’s Disparate Impact”, California Law Review, 671, 2016.
Machine Bias in Pro Publica by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu, and Lauren Kirchner, May 23, 2016
Algorithmic Justice League is a collective that aims to:
Highlight algorithmic bias through media, art, and science
Provide space for people to voice concerns and experiences with coded bias
Develop practices for accountability during design, development, and deployment of coded systems
Joy Buolamwini – AI, Ain’t I A Woman?
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