Speaker: Cathy O'Neil

Author of the blog mathbabe.org

Cathy O'Neil is the author of the blog mathbabe.org. She was the former Director of the Lede Program in Data Practices at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Tow Center and was employed as Data Science Consultant at Johnson Research Labs. Cathy earned a mathematics Ph.D. from Harvard University and currently lives in NYC.

Find Cathy O'Neil at

http://mathbabe.org/

@mathbabedotorg

‎Writer, blogger, math nerd, data nerd

Talk: How do we Audit Algorithms?

Track: Data Science & Machine Learning Methods

Location: Whittle, 3rd flr.

Day of week: Wednesday

Duration: 4:10pm - 5:00pm

Algorithms are increasingly being used to automate what used to be human processes. They are potentially more fair and objective, but they are not automatically so. In fact they can easily codify unfair historical practices. I will discuss some examples of this problem and then I'll pose the question, how would we transparently and comprehensibly audit such algorithms for fairness?

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