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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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TCIP #059 – The Human Capital Component Of Crisis Management, With Sam Miller

Melissa Agnes

An important question that should be added to your risk analysis – every time. Her client list includes financial organizations, technology companies, healthcare organizations, government agencies, cities and municipalities, energy companies, global non-profits, and many others. President and co-founder of Agnes + Day Inc.,

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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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