Machine Bias
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/492648
▻http://community.globaleditorsnetwork.org/content/machine-bias-0
Few ProPublica projects have had as much influence as our work on algorithms. Our coverage has resulted in a court ruling, company policy change and, perhaps most fundamentally, has helped spur a national discussion about the need for fairness in algorithms. Surveying the breadth of our work on what he rightly called “algorithmic accountability,” Columbia University Journalism School Dean Steve Coll wrote the following: “These sorts of investigations show journalists applying the math, statistics, and data science knowledge necessary to investigate contemporary hard targets.
(figure parmi les finalistes de ce concours de #data_visualisation ▻http://community.globaleditorsnetwork.org/projects_by_event/2557)