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FrontiersofComputationalJournalism
ColumbiaJournalismSchool
Week9:AlgorithmicAccountabilityNovember13,2015
Algorithmsinourlives• Personalizedsearch• Politicalmicrotargeting• Creditscore/loans/insurance• Predictivepolicing• Pricediscrimination• Algorithmictrading/markets• Terroristthreatprediction• Hiringmodels
TitleVIIofCivilRightsAct,1964Itshallbeanunlawfulemploymentpracticeforanemployer-
(1)tofailorrefusetohireortodischargeanyindividual,orotherwisetodiscriminateagainstanyindividualwithrespecttohiscompensation,terms,conditions,orprivilegesofemployment,becauseofsuchindividual’srace,color,religion,sex,ornationalorigin;or
(2)tolimit,segregate,orclassifyhisemployeesorapplicantsforemploymentinanywaywhichwoulddepriveortendtodepriveanyindividualofemploymentopportunitiesorotherwiseadverselyaffecthisstatusasanemployee,becauseofsuchindividual’srace,color,religion,sex,ornationalorigin.
LearningfromFacebooklikes
FromKosinskiet.al.,Privatetraitsandattributesarepredictablefromdigital recordsofhumanbehavior
PredictinggenderfromTwitter
FromZamalet.al.,HomophilyandLatentAttributeInference:InferringLatentAttributesofTwitterUsersfromNeighbors
PredictingracefromTwitter
FromPennacchiottiandPopescu,AMachineLearningApproach toTwitterUserClassification
Eveniftwogroupsofthepopulation admitsimpleclassifiers,thewholepopulationmaynot(fromHowBigDataisUnfair)