@curmudgeon

Data Scientist @drivendataorg, formerly @meetup, @UChicagoCAPP. Code ∩ Policy ∩ Social Justice. Fan of Internet cats & cats IRL.

 NYC
Joined April 2007
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Slides and materials for the #ODSCWest workshop "Actionable Ethics for Data Scientists" with @jayyqi and @caseyfitz are on GitHub. Check it out in case you missed it, or if you want to see it again! @drivendataorg buff.ly/2qT3MlP #dataethics #data #DataScience
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🎉 We’re so excited to launch a new open source tool! Deon adds ethics checklists to data science projects. Support for markdown, @projectjupyter, custom checklists and more! One command jumpstarts the conversation all data teams should be having: deon.drivendata.org/ 🎉
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Rob Reid
@Rob_Reid24 Oct 2018
This spring, evolutionary psychologist @LaurieSantos debuted a course about happiness, almost experimentally. It became the most popular course in Yale's 300+ year history. This episode could make you happier! It's here: bit.ly/2q7RH8M
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It's exactly what you'd expect to see in a society captured by the idea that life must be earned, and wealth is how you earn it, and whiteness and maleness are fungible with wealth.
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Wealth is innocence. Maleness is innocence. Whiteness is innocence. Authority is innocence. Failure to attain these standards is guilt. Seems weird, but you can see it work every day. Botham Jean was innocent until he was proven not white. And so they searched his apartment.
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Mood. (credit @anne_theriault)
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Since wimlds.org is a Meetup.com based community, it's great to see that @Meetup has adopted the "Manifesto for Data Practices". #DataEthics Read a post by #wimlds member & Meetup data scientist @curmudgeon here: medium.com/making-meetup/mee… @MakingMeetup
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What if 'tech ethics' is a smokescreen unless it contends with the bigger issues of concentrated power, governance models, due process, and public accountability? 🤔 xitter.cf/rachelcoldicutt/status…
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ladyson@ladyson8 Jun 2018
What is this data worth? How are the profits being used and who is benefiting? Until we ask this, smart cities will just be smart exploitation of residents. @geminiimatt #PDF18
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ladyson@ladyson8 Jun 2018
I find it a little hard to believe that PMs at facebook have never been asked to make a decision between what’s good for business and what’s good for people. Those are trade offs that anyone working in tech confronts every day, whether you are aware of it or not #PDF18
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Interested in starting a women's #DataScience or #MachineLearning meetup in your city? We'd love to help! Reach out at [email protected].
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Are you looking to attend an all-male conference in #DataScience? #rfinance2018 has got you covered! 🧑🏻🙋🏻‍♂️🧓🏻👱🏻‍♂️🤵🏻👨🏻🧔🏻👴🏻👨🏻‍💼 100% male committee, 100% male speakers, no Code of Conduct. Yes, this is 2018! 📆 rinfinance.com #BinderFullofMen 👬
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this is awesome xitter.cf/amuellerml/status/9329…
Andreas Mueller@amuellerml21 Nov 2017
After quite some discussion, scikit-learn finally merged a replacement for OneHotEncoder that can deal with strings and has a nicer interface: github.com/scikit-learn/scik… Say hello to the CategoricalEncoder scikit-learn.org/dev/modules… (only in the master branch for now)

[MRG + 1] ENH: new CategoricalEncoder class by jorisvandenbossche · Pull Request #9151 · scikit-l...

This is currently simply a rebase of PR #6559 by @vighneshbirodkar . Some context: this PR #6559 was the first of a series of PRs related to this. This PR added a CategoricalEncoder. Then it was de...

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dj patil
@dpatil1 Feb 2018
Data Scientists. It's time. With great power comes great responsibility. Let's roll. medium.com/@dpatil/a-code-of…

A Code of Ethics for Data Science

2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. It’s created by you when you’re commute to work or school, when you’re shopping, when…

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Esther Dyson
@edyson28 Nov 2017
WeWork to Buy Meetup, the Service for Bringing [people together through hobbies & passions] nyti.ms/2idqq4I Two companies that believe in RealLife infrastructure and RealLife presence, together for 1+1= magic.

WeWork Buys Meetup, the Service for Bringing Hobbyists Together (Published 2017)

In acquiring the meeting-organization company, WeWork is seeking to again extend its business beyond office space into more facets of customers’ lives.

nytimes.com
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WeWork
@WeWork28 Nov 2017
We're acquiring @Meetup, and together we'll use technology to create new & innovative ways of building community: we.co/wemeet (via @WIRED) #wearewework
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New MS-CAPP postcards in the works! Can you see the inspiration from Jeff Hammerbacher (@hackingdata)?
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NOW recruiting for the 2018 Congressional Innovation Fellowship! Help us spread the word! techcongress.io/apply
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Curious what iPhone X's #FaceID means for law enforcement and the Fourth or Fifth Amendment? Here's a quick guide.
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Laurie Voss
@seldo7 Aug 2017
The point of diversity is not to get 15 different-colored and gendered people who all solve problems the way a straight white dude does.
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