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Automated data wrangling works in commercial applications, but without analogous open source tools access to open data will fall behind.

The entanglement of data and power makes feminism a necessity for this growing field. B Data Feminism Excerpted from Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein. Reprinted with Permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2020. The act of collecting and recording data about people is not new at all. From the registers of the dead that were published by church officials in the early modern era to the counts of Indigenous populations that appeared in colonial accounts of the ...

Coded Bias Paints a Terrifying Picture Of Facial Recognitions Real Impact On Lives Algorithms are power and this power is with governments and with a few corporations. A poster for Coded Bias. Photo courtesy: Netflix Tech8 hours ago Scientific thought is charming for many reasons. It expands human capabilities. It shrinks the world to fit our palms. It accelerates the passage of time: due to the explosion of the Internet, smartphones, social media, the last two decades feel much longer and rich...

Algorithmic Redlining Is Real. Why Not Algorithmic Greenlining? These powerful tools of artificial intelligence can reflect a history of systemic bias. But they could be used to promote equity and help close the nations yawning racial wealth gap. Vinhcent Le, The Greenlining Institute   |   April 2, 2021   |  Opinion Imagine you live in a neighborhood that has long been under-resourced — "redlined" back in the days when such overt discrim...

Workers of the World: Growth, Change, and Rebellion The working class of the twenty-first century is a class in formation, as one would expect in a world where capitalism has only recently become universal. At the same time, Marx himself reminded us long ago, in speaking of the development of classes in England where they were “most classically developed,” that “even here, though, this class articulation does not emerge in pure form.” 1 The working class, of course, is much broader tha...

Des Moines metro community news briefs: Local vendor market, Polk City library and more Special to the Register, Des Moines Register © Special to the Register Saydel student Jarrett Vitiritto is pictured here with Saydel High School Principal Kevin Schulte holding Vitirittos award. Find unique and unexpected items from local Iowa artisans at the Midwest Local Vendor Market at Outlets of Des Moines. From fashion to jewelry, home décor, wellness and spa products, baked goods a...

Updated: January 10, 2021 07:15 IST With the help of research, Jill Lepore profiles Simulmatics Corporation and its manipulative ways which continue to haunt the globe Share Article AAA With the help of research, Jill Lepore profiles Simulmatics Corporation and its manipulative ways which continue to haunt the globe In the beginning was the data. And with it came manipulation. Satan who disrupted paradise was armed with data. He knew a lot about the people he wanted to gaslight. He knew a lot m...

In 1829, an engineer named Francis Xaver Riepl and the Austrian banker Salomon von Rothschild decided that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was ready to enter the Railroad Era. The two men went to the court of the Habsburg Emperor Francis I and requested permission and funds to build Austria’s first steam-powered railroad line. But Francis was not blind. His family dynasty had ruled large swaths of Europe and all of Austria for more than 550 years, and it hadn’t maintained its dominion for centu...

20 book recommendations from tech and business leaders Image: © BillionPhotos.com/Stock.adobe.com Here are some of the book recommendations we got from tech leaders in 2020. Throughout our Leaders’ Insights series on Silicon Republic this year, we asked a host of tech and business leaders from Ireland and further afield to recommend some books that our readers might be interested in. We got suggestions for books covering leadership, entrepreneurial advice, tech insights and more. So if you�...