Showing posts with label ethics-forward data science major. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 18, 2019

University Launches Ethics-Forward Data Science Major; Washington Square News, NYU's Independent Student Newspaper, September 16, 2019

Akiva Thalheim, Washington Square News, NYU's Independent Student Newspaper; University Launches Ethics-Forward Data Science Major

"The new major seeks to specifically address and prevent these issues through a required course in the ethics of data science, [Center for Data Science Director Julia] Kempe explained. She added that the course was developed with the assistance of a National Science Foundation grant.

“We are hoping to educate young people to be data savvy and also data critical, because nowadays, everything is about data but often it’s done in a very uncritical way,” Kempe said. “We have to understand where the biases are [and] how to use data ethically — it’s something that we want to impart on every student, if we can.""