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Class Reading Options

We will have periodic readings covering the topics of ethics and consulting. I may add more items to the list as the semester progresses. Each week we will be assigned something from this list to read.

Working in Teams

• The most productive teams at google and What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
• Data Science Teams at Wish.com
• Data Science Teams at IBM
• Data Science Teams at Coursera
• At Airbnb, Data Science Belongs Everywhere
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Beware Of The HIPPO Effect!
• Managing a Data Science Team
• On Building Effective Data Science Teams
• Data Scientists: Generalists or specialists?
• How to Lead Data Science Teams
• Transitioning from data scientist to data science leader
• Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story

Ethics in Data

• An ethical code can’t be about ethics
• Ethical codes vs. ethical code
• Gelman on p hacking
• Generative AI Takes Stereotypes and Bias From Bad to Worse

• [They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?

  The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie)

• Weapons of Math Destruction Interview
• Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Social Sciences: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
• Big Data and Civil Rights
• Big Data Ethics
• The ethics of web scraping
• Big data and Its Exclusions
• Big data and the Underground Railroad
• Machine Learning, Physiognomy, and Hidden Bias
• The Ethical Choice Game and Driverless Cars
• The Ethical Rules for Autombiles
• Ethics in Data Science in 5 minutes
• Hidden Biases in Big Data
• How big data is unfair
• The Nuremburg Code
• Who decides the ethics
• Universal principles of data ethics
• responsible big data research rules
• raw data is an oxymoron excerpts
• FTC Unfairness and Big Data
• Of beauty, sex, and power: Statistical challenges in estimating small effects
• What If Data Scientists Had Licenses Like Lawyers?
• Rush Limbaugh died from lung cancer after denying smoking’s risk. Why’d he believe his lie?
• What is an “algorithm”? It depends whom you ask
• Big Data and Their Epistemological Challenge
• Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order
  • South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid
• the Facebook Files
  • Episode 1: The White List
  • Episode 2: We Make Body Images Worst
  • Episode 3: This Shouldn’t happen on Facebook
  • Episode 4: The outrage Algorithm
  • Episode 5: The Push To Attract Younger Users
  • Episode 6: The Whistleblower
  • Episode 7: The AI Challenge
  • Episode 8: A new Enforcement Strategy
  • Game: The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds
  • Is truth discovered in social networks
• Propublica: Machine Bias Articles
  • Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk, The Car Insurance Industry Attacks Our Story. Here’s Our Response., How We Examined Racial Discrimination in Auto Insurance Prices, and Chicago Area Disparities in Car Insurance Premiums
  • Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate
  • HUD Sues Facebook Over Housing Discrimination and Says the Company’s Algorithms Have Made the Problem Worse
  • AARP and Key Senators Urge Companies to End Age Bias in Recruiting on Facebook and These Are the Job Ads You Can’t See on Facebook If You’re Older
  • Putting Crime Scene DNA Analysis on Trial, ProPublica Seeks Source Code for New York City’s Disputed DNA Software, The Big Problems with Testing Tiny Bits of DNA, and Federal Judge Unseals New York Crime Lab’s Software for Analyzing DNA Evidence
  • Amazon Defends Its Pricing Algorithm, But Leaves Out Billions in Sales
  • What Algorithmic Injustice Looks Like in Real Life, Machine Bias, ProPublica Responds to Company’s Critique of Machine Bias Story and How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm
  • The Tiger Mom Tax: Asians Are Nearly Twice as Likely to Get a Higher Price from Princeton Review
  • Breaking the Black Box (4 Episode videos
• Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You
• Revisionist History: The Rise of the Guinea Pigs with a full transcript
  • Revisionist History: The Department of Physiological Hygiene (optional before you listen to The Rise of the Guinea Pigs)

Consulting in Statistics and Data Science

• Building a Data Practice from Scratch
• The Startup Founder’s Guide to Analytics
• Starting a data science business
• How to compete in data science consulting
• Thoughts on statistical consulting
• Consulting in Stats
• Lyft and solving business problems
• Data science job-seeking advice to my younger self
• How to spot red flags in a data science job opportunity

On the Data Science Field

• The future history of Data Engineering

Voted Down

• How to Structure a Data Science Team: Key Models and Roles to Consider

Random Stuff

• data for solutions
• Making Favicons for your website
• social security numbers