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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 Americas, data collection has long been employed as a technique of consolidating knowledge about the...

'Coded Bias' Paints a Terrifying Picture Of Facial Recognition's 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 richer. It also carries a moral halo, because science, unlike humans, doesn’t discriminate. Tw...

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 nation's 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 discrimination was both legal and encouraged by the federal government, and which has never fully recovere...

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 than those who are employed at any one time. Relying only on workforce figures obscures important aspec...