Showing posts with label Deon. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 1, 2018

Customizable ethics checklists for Big Data researchers; BoingBoing, October 29, 2018

Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing; Customizable ethics checklists for Big Data researchers

"Deon is a project to create automated "ethics checklists" for data science projects; by default, running the code creates a comprehensive checklist covering data collection and storage, modeling and deployment: the checklist items aren't specific actions, they're "meant to provoke discussion among good-faith actors who take their ethical responsibilities seriously. Because of this, most of the items are framed as prompts to discuss or consider. Teams will want to document these discussions and decisions for posterity."

The lists can be customized for your own purposes, and if you think the default list needs revising, there's a democratic process for amending it."