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#CrisisRoundup of Awesome Links: Week of September 8, 2014

Melissa Agnes

This week I’ve been trying to jam two work weeks into one as I’ll be traveling to the middle east next week – Dubai to be precise – to speak to healthcare delegates at a GCC government conference. Help Prevent A Crisis With A Social Media Risk Analysis. Risk analyses are so important.

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Make “Fairness by Design” Part of Machine Learning

Harvard Business

More recently, a study compared the commonly used crime risk analysis tool COMPAS against recidivism predictions from 400 untrained workers recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. The results suggest that COMPAS has learned implicit racial biases, causing it to be less accurate than the novice human predictors.

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